9 Employees of the National Pork Producers Council Take Home $12 Million in Compensation
In 2024, the 6 most highly compensated employees of the National Pork Producers Council – a tax-exempt non-profit 501 (c) 5 – received $2 million in compensation:
- $441,837: Maria Zieba, VP, Government Affairs
- $382,934: Michael Formica, Chief Legal Strategist
- $355,757: Bryan Humphreys, CEO
- $279,329: Annemarie Pender, AVP ,Communications and Marketing
- $270,687: Jeffrey Pigott, VP, Industry Relations
- $258,699: James Curliss, VP Strategic Engagement
How the National Pork Producers Council Spends Revenue
The National Pork Producers Council – a tax-exempt, non-profit – 501 (c) 5 is an agricultural group established for economic self defense representing the mutual interests of pork producers, rather than a public service. If you’re wondering why pork producers need to establish self defense look no further than the way pigs and hogs are treated, and specifically how sows are put in gestation crates so they can’t move around…literally for years. Pork producers may say they do this so mama pig doesn’t squish her piglets or to protect them from predators (as if humans are not predators) but the reasons have more to do with money, as Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times recently reported in “What the Meat Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know.” Gestation crates are simply cruel (as our veal crates but that’s another story). Read more 
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