Sharpton was paid a total of $1,238,704 between January 2003 and December 2012, according to a review of National Action Network’s publicly available financial records. In 2013, NAN paid Sharpton $241,545 (roughly the same amount as in each of the previous four years). That was the year that the Black Lives Matter movement was founded after the July 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman in the controversial 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
Since 2013, Sharpton's compensation at NAN has risen dramatically along with NAN's revenues. In 2014, Sharpton was paid $412,644 — a more than 70% increase over the previous year — and NAN’s total revenues approached $7 million. (NAN's average annual revenue in the preceding three years was $4.4 million). NAN's most recently available financial report is for the year 2018, and it lists Sharpton's salary as $1,046,948 — a four-fold increase from 2013. NAN's revenues in 2018 were $7.3 million — its highest ever.
When asked about his large salary, Sharpton said, "It's a six-day-a-week job and several hours a day, and when [the compensation firm] compared it to other companies, other non-profits, that's the salary that they would get." But a review of executive salaries at similar nonprofits found that Sharpton’s is well above average.
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