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August 10, 2025

12 Employees of Carle Health Take Home $100 Million

by Anne Paddock

12 of the most highly compensated employees of Carle Health (a vertically integrated healthcare system – health insurance, medical care, education, and research – with 8 hospitals and group practices that employ more than 1,300 physicians and advanced practice providers and 16,000 workers in Illinois, Indiana, Washington, and North Carolina. Carle Health also encompasses a medical school – Carle Illinois College of Medicine at Methodist College – and a research Institute, Stephens Family Clinical Research Institute.  Based in Urbana, Illinois, Carle Health consists of 29 tax-exempt organizations and 26 related organizations taxed as a partnership, corporation, or trust) and specifically of  Carle Health Care, Carle Foundation Hospital (its flagship hospital in Urbana, IL), and the Carle Foundation (the parent company) received $100 million in compensation from 2017-2023:

James Leonard:  Total Compensation 2017-2023:  $26 million

  • 2023:  $5,726,886
  • 2022:  $2,801,918
  • 2021:  $3,200,493
  • 2021:  $5,286,135
  • 2019:  $2,909,007
  • 2018:  $2,772,422
  • 2017:  $2,860,931

Matthew Kolb:  Total Compensation 2017-2023:  $9 million

  • 2023;  $1,930,637
  • 2022:  $1,757,452
  • 2021:  $1,497,167
  • 2020:  $1,268,158
  • 2019:  $  833,489
  • 2018:  $  467,233
  • 2017:  $  395,44

Dennis Hesch:  Total Compensation 2017-2023:  $12 million

  • 2023:  $1,762,884
  • 2022:  $1,700,899
  • 2021:  $1,942,708
  • 2020:  $1,824,936
  • 2019:  $1,582,427
  • 2018:  $1,455,093
  • 2017:  $1,484,594

Craig Neitzel:  Total Compensation 2017-2023:  $12 million

  • 2023:  $1,798,893
  • 2022:  $1,700,764
  • 2021:  $1,749,558
  • 2020:  $1,396,870
  • 2019:  $1,430,928
  • 2018:  $1,465,441
  • 2017:  $1,481,804

William Holmes:  Total Compensation 2017-2023:  $9 million

  • 2023:  $1,440,916
  • 2022:  $1,356,943
  • 2021:  $1,340,416
  • 2020:  $1,246,261
  • 2019:  $1,102,416
  • 2018:  $1,101,727
  • 2017:  $1,187,284

Saeed Ally:  Total Compensation 2023:  $1.4 million

  • 2023:  $1,429,616

Sinisa Stanic:  Total Compensation 2022-2023:  $3 million

  • 2023:  $1,322,620
  • 2022:  $1,330,526

Robert Bane:  Total Compensation 2017-2023:  $9 million

  • 2023:  $1,274,976
  • 2022:  $1,246,122
  • 2021:  $1,433,097
  • 2020:  $1,254,243
  • 2019:  $1,188,321
  • 2018:  $1,267,973
  • 2017:  $1,210,471

Laurence Fallon:  Total Compensation 2017-2023:  $8 million

  • 2023:  $1,160,805
  • 2022:  $1,141,155
  • 2021:  $1,326,334
  • 2020:  $1,221,328
  • 2019:  $1,179,066
  • 2018:  $1,106,018
  • 2017:  $  916,265

Lauren Schmid:  Total Compensation 2018-2023:  $5 million

  • 2023:  $1,155,351
  • 2022: $1,001,069
  • 2021:  $  843,153
  • 2020:  $  709,550
  • 2019:  $  529,189
  • 2018:  $  444,823

Napoleon Knight:  Total Compensation 2021-2023:  $3 million

  • 2023:  $1,056,334
  • 2022:  $  859,263
  • 2021:  $1,247,656

Sheffield Dawson:  Total Compensation 2022-2023:  $2 million

  • 2023:  $1,008,518
  • 2022:  $  669,039

Note:  Highly compensated employees in any of the years 2017-2022 but not in 2023 are not included above.

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