His Arts Center Strapped, Exec Gets $1.2 Million Bonus

“Not long before the Citi Performing Arts Center decided to make drastic cuts to its popular summer production of Shakespeare on the Boston Common, its board agreed to pay president and CEO Josiah Spaulding Jr., a $1.265 million bonus. That payment came on top of Spaulding’s annual compensation of $409,000, plus $23,135 in benefits. … Spaulding has presided over five straight years of budget deficits, cuts to programming, and a dramatic drop in performances at the Wang and Shubert theaters, which the Citi Center operates.”