After making what it says were cuts in administrative salaries, it is asking the musicians for rollbacks to make up a remaining $1.8 million shortfall.
Fixed costs are expenses that do not vary with sales volume, such as rent and administrative salaries.
Future studies will look at the administrative salaries in hospitals, local governments and independent authorities, including the Port Authority.
Hernandez later apologized for what he called the city's "indefensible administrative salaries".
Others argued that high administrative salaries are at odds with the mission and tradition of a nonprofit enterprise.
As a result, overhead does not include administrative salaries and is therefore very low.
About $90,000 will cover administrative salaries.
It has already cut or frozen administrative salaries and reduced the pay of its conductor, Franz Welser-Möst.
The growth in administrative salaries and perks should also be looked into.
The Federal budget lumps together ordinary spending (for farm subsidies or administrative salaries) and long-term public investment (for mass transit or scientific research).