The highest-paid employees at numerous affiliates that belong to the tax-exempt nonprofit known as Planned Parenthood made more money than Dr. Anthony Fauci — and the national CEO made nearly twice as much, according to figures supplied in a new investigative report.

The American Life League (ALL) examined the salaries which the nation’s largest abortion business, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), paid its national officers, as well as the chief executive officers of its 49 national affiliates. In all, 13 PPFA employees or CEOs of its regional franchises took home more money than Fauci.

The federal government paid Dr. Anthony Fauci, then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), $434,312 in 2020 — the year he advocated the United States close all but “essential” businesses in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. (While many states shuttered all houses of worship, they deemed Planned Parenthood’s abortion facilities an essential business.) Fauci received another $480,654 in 2022, his last full year before retirement.

In 2023, PPFA’s national president and CEO, Alexis McGill Johnson, received $904,014 — nearly twice as much as Fauci. Sarah Stoesz of Planned Parenthood North Central States — which covers the sparsely populated states of Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and South Dakota — received $699,395 in compensation during 2022, although she did not work a full year. (Stoesz departed PPNCS in October.)

Eight CEOs at affiliates of the 501(c)(3) received more than half a million dollars in compensation, ranking them in the much-bemoaned top 1% of U.S. income earners.

Another 10 received a salary more than triple that of the average nonprofit leader, according to the ALL report titled “2025 Report on Planned Parenthood Compensation,” which examined data from 2023 supplemented with figures from 2022.

The CEOs of Planned Parenthood affiliates made an average salary of $352,661, landing them firmly in the top 2% of U.S. income earners, or the 98th percentile.

Such high CEO compensation would normally serve as a flashing red light in the nonprofit world. “Yikes! $1 Million Charity Salaries,” exclaimed CharityWatch, formerly the American Institute of Philanthropy, in October 2023. The average nonprofit CEO earns $117,000. (Technically, the average nonprofit CEO’s compensation is $116,917, and that is in 2025, not 2022 or 2023 as measured by the report.) The lowest-paid Planned Parenthood CEO — Ashley Coffield, who leads the Planned Parenthood of Tennessee & North Mississippi franchise — took home nearly $58,000 more than that figure.

Only five CEOs who served a full year at one of Planned Parenthood’s 49 affiliates earned less than $200,000 in 2022-2023.

“Planned Parenthood gets rich off killing babies, and they use our tax money to do it,” said ALL President Judie Brown in an email sent to The Washington Stand. “Planned Parenthood is a bloated killing machine, funded and supported by our own tax money.”

Planned Parenthood received $699.3 million in taxpayer funding fiscal year and carried out 392,712 abortions in its 2022-2023 fiscal year, according to its most recent annual report. Fully one-third (34%) of Planned Parenthood’s budget comes from the U.S. Treasury.

“It is clear that there has been an extremely inappropriate misuse of funds by our government and by other nongovernmental organizations,” ALL National Director Katie Brown Xavios told TWS.

“Hundreds of millions of our tax dollars are forked over to the oligarchs at Planned Parenthood, and in turn, they kill nearly half a million preborn Americans each year. And the reward? A government-funded nonprofit CEO making nearly $1 million a year,” said Xavios.

Unlike most Americans, Planned Parenthood’s salaries kept pace with Bidenflation. Johnson’s near-million-dollar salary represents a 32% increase over her $683,697 paycheck in 2021. “The average total compensation (which includes both salary and other forms of compensation for employees, such as bonuses, nontaxable benefits, retirement plans, and commissions) for Planned Parenthood’s affiliate CEOs increased 11% from 2020 to 2023,” says the report. Between 2021 and 2023, inflation raised typical consumer prices an overage of 14%, while the average American paycheck increased only 10.4%, according to the Federal Reserve of St. Louis.

Planned Parenthood salaries exceed some of the top salaries in the soon-to-be-closed Department of Education. At the DOE, “86 employees were making an average salary of $201,374; more than 1,000 employees were making between $167,603 and $195,200; and more than 1,000 were making between $142,488 and $185,234, reported Tommy Schultz of the American Federation for Children.

The high earnings of Planned Parenthood CEOs contrast sharply with the income of their employees. “Salaries” for Planned Parenthood workers “are so low that it is not unusual for staff members to qualify for Medicaid and federal food assistance,” reported The New York Times in an investigative exposé. “Scores of former employees have sued Planned Parenthood, raising complaints that include refusing to pay overtime or provide breaks, pushing out employees who needed time off to deal with injuries or newborn babies, and firing people who complained about discrimination or clinic practices.”

The report’s authors cite these figures as more proof that Planned Parenthood does not need federal funding. “It is extremely clear that Planned Parenthood’s priority is money and the ability to funnel that money back into the pockets of its own CEOs,” says the report, which is co-authored by Judie, Hugh, and Katie Brown Xavios, as well as lead researcher Katherine Van Dyke.

Yet the amount of taxpayer dollars Planned Parenthood reaps from the federal government annually has increased 43% since 2010, even as its number of overall medical services has fallen 17%, according to the Charlotte Lozier Institute.

“Between 2022 and 2023, preventive-care visits fell by 31.0%, pap tests fell by 13.5%, cancer screenings fell by 1.4%, and adoption referrals fell by 4.5%. Interestingly, for every adoption referral in 2023, Planned Parenthood performed over 228 abortions. In the past 10 years, the number of abortions performed by Planned Parenthood has increased by 20%. Meanwhile, cancer screenings fell by more than 58%, and prenatal services declined by more than 67%,” Michael New, a senior associate scholar at the institute, told TWS last year.

PPFA “saw 80,000 fewer patients, provided 60,000 fewer pap tests and breast exams, and even gave out less contraception,” added Marjorie Dannenfelser of SBA Pro-Life America at the time.

The high salaries seem puzzling because eyewitnesses say Planned Parenthood often offers poor quality health care. The New York Times reported many Planned Parenthood staff “did not receive adequate training for patient intake, blood draws and other tasks.” In Omaha, “sewage from a backed-up toilet seeped into the abortion recovery room for two days.”

As in real life, the wages generally track with a franchise’s overall profitability. Four of the franchises reported a total annual income of more than $100 million.

To earn so much money, each Planned Parenthood office aims to carry out a targeted number of abortions — which employees have dubbed an “abortion quota” — which rises as time goes by. “If you don’t meet your quota, people get fired and you don’t get your big bonus,” explained former Planned Parenthood clinic manager Abby Johnson in 2016. “There are monetary bonuses for directors if you meet your quota.”

To meet that quota, Planned Parenthood has a long history of covering up sexual abuse and human trafficking.

PPFA has also stepped deeply into the transgender industry at 45 of its 49 affiliates, carrying out injections of children as young as 12. 

Another factor that may account for Planned Parenthood’s surging public funding is Planned Parenthood’s increasingly vocal — and lucrative — involvement in politics. Last year, Planned Parenthood announced plans to spend $140 million on supporting Democratic candidates who favor abortion (and abortion funding) as part of a long-term campaign targeting all 50 states. It included $40 million in get-out-the-vote efforts in the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, as well as joining a 10-year, $100 million campaign aimed at “securing access to abortion care in every state.”

Planned Parenthood’s annual report also notes the abortion chain spent $46.7 million on “public policy” and $14.8 to “engage communities.”

The circular cash flow from liberal politician to Planned Parenthood is a “vicious cycle” that “should enrage Americans,” Xavios told TWS.

The first two leaders of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) raised the possibility of cutting Planned Parenthood funding in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal shortly after the election. “DOGE will help end federal overspending by taking aim at the $500 billion plus in annual federal expenditures that are unauthorized by Congress or being used in ways that Congress never intended, from $535 million a year to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and $1.5 billion for grants to international organizations to nearly $300 million to progressive groups like Planned Parenthood,” wrote Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

President Donald Trump — who vowed the watchword of his presidency would be “promises made, promises kept” — committed to “[d]efunding Planned Parenthood as long as they continue to perform abortions” in a 2016 letter.

“In exposing the waste, fraud, and abuse of our tax dollars, ALL asks you to join our call to DOGE and our government to defund this corrupt organization of every tax dollar!” Brown told TWS.

“Now is the time for our country’s leaders to truly assess these numbers and give Planned Parenthood the boot when it comes to receiving government reimbursements or benefitting from any form of appropriations,” Van Dyke told TWS. “In other words, it is time to defund this very wealthy and profitable abortion megacorporation.”

The Bible does not condemn high compensation in exchange for work, which usually aligns with the value one produces for one’s employer. But God only blesses those who earn their daily bread at biblically acceptable jobs. It is not permissible to become a Mafia hitman in order to earn a lot of money. Pope Francis has called abortionists “hitmen.” In a just world, those who facilitate the murder of the innocent would not be compensated; they would be prosecuted and incarcerated. One day, before a Higher tribunal, their deeds will receive a recompense of a different kind.