Carol Lombardini, the top negotiator representing Hollywoods major studios in contract deals with unions, saw pay rise to $3.7 million in the fiscal year that included the monthslong writers and actors strikes.

Lombardini, the longtime president of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, recently stepped aside for an advisory position after a 15-year run. The AMPTP, which negotiates with labor organizers for its member studios that include Disney, NBCUniversal, Paramount, Sony, Netflix, Amazon, Apple and Warner Bros. Discovery, named Gregory Hessinger as its incoming president on March 25. For the fiscal year beginning in April 2023 and ending in March 2024, Lombardini saw a pay raise of $500,000, per a newly filed tax form from the organization with the IRS, up from $3.26 million in compensation a year before. The AMPTPs Tracy Cahill, the senior vp business affairs, received pay of $754,038.

In the year documented in the filing, the Writers Guild of America went on a 148-day strike beginning in May, while SAG-AFTRAs members went on their own 118-day work stoppage beginning in July. The WGAs members ratified a three-year contract dealin October that year while SAG-AFTRA set a new three-year TV/Theatrical contract in December 2023.

For that year, the AMPTP disclosed in the tax filing that it spent $344,459 on negotiation expenses and $778,377 on legal expenses as part of $14,438,595 in total expenses on $12,341,144 in total revenue.

On the labor side of the negotiating table during the strikes, SAG-AFTRAs national executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland saw a gross salary of $1,016,182, Directors Guild of America national executive director Russell Hollander saw a gross salary of $775,000 and Writers Guild of America West executive director Ellen Stutzman saw pay of $682,692, the unions noted in previously disclosed filings.

As the AMPTP undergoes a changing of the guard as lawyer Hessinger takes over on April 14, the organization credited Lombardini for leading to multiple first-of-their-kind deals that represent a new paradigm with guilds like SAG-AFTRA, the Writers Guild and the Directors Guild.

It has been an honor to work hand-in-hand with our Member Companies to lead theAMPTPin successful negotiations alongside our union and guild partners for so many years, stated Lombardini, who joined the organization in 1982, when unveiling the leadership transition.

The outgoing president added, I am grateful to have worked with so many talented studio executives and respected union representatives tohelp our industry solve workplace problems. I have no doubt that Greg is the perfect leader to continue to unite our industry and promote opportunity for those who bring entertainment to life.