Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

Report No. 1 · Nonprofit Hospital Executive Pay vs Charity Care · Annual Report, 2026 edition

Wisconsin · Not ranked: see note below.

St Mary's Hospital of Superior

Kim Pearson, Administrator. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$251,710
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.92%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
26.9%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Kim Pearson’s pay of $251,710 equals 26.9 percent of the $936,829 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Not in the ranking because the chief executive could not be identified from the filing with confidence. The figures below are shown as filed.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$132,835,323
Total expenses
$101,345,219
Net assets
$240,638,955
Employees
439
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$936,829
Bad debt
$6,301,737
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$612,117
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$220,758
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$30,952
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$251,710 to Kim Pearson

Medicare surplus (shortfall) is Schedule H Part III line 7: Medicare revenue minus the cost of Medicare care. A figure in parentheses is a shortfall. Like bad debt, it is not community benefit on the IRS form.

Source: Form 990, St Mary's Hospital of Superior, EIN 41-1811073, fiscal year ending 2025-06, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: administrator title.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$2.0M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$936,829 (46%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($6.3M) and Medicare shortfall are reported separately by the IRS and are not community benefit on the form.

Every number on this page was copied from the filing linked above. If a figure is wrong, send the filing that contradicts it and the correction runs at the top of this page.

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St Mary's Hospital of Superior: CEO pay $251,710, charity care 0.92% of expenses