Not two, but only one cultural major in 2010, and none in 2011

That was a bit of a shock for culture lovers in Utrecht and beyond. the dear youth theatre house Het Lab turned out to have an artistic director with an annual salary of 214,975 euros. A salary that made him equal to the dozens of air traffic controllers, medical specialists and broadcasting staff who all earn far more than the Balkenende norm (193,000 euros a year, including pension).

But no.

The ever amiable Dennis Meyer earns just 73,000 euros and some more. The regular boss salary in the cultural sector. Someone, and we don't know who just now, put a figure too many on his pension statement, then the amount was added to his annual salary and voila. Interior took the figure.

So now rectified.

One remains. In 2010, the Amsterdam School of Arts had a chairman of the executive board who received 199,654 euros. Indeed: touched. As it happens, this Olchert Brouwer no longer works at the Hogeschool. His successor Jet de Ranitz has a salary conforming to the frameworks set by the Netherlands Association of Universities of Applied Sciences (HBO-Raad) for this purpose (cachelink). That is well below the Balkenende norm.

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