“Ellen V. Futter, the president of New York’s American Museum of Natural History, took a 5 percent salary cut for the year that ended in June 2009, the museum said, as fundraising fell and staffing was reduced.” She earned $1.1 million the previous year. Other AMNH executives also took a 5 percent cut. “While ticketed attendance is up by more than a third since 2005, to about 10,000 a day, the recession has hurt the museum’s other revenue sources.”