Concacaf hired external experts to help set Montagliani’s pay. A separate compensation committee negotiated the deal, which the organization’s top board members ratified. The committee agreed to a base of $1.25 million and the provision of a nonguaranteed 100 percent bonus. The figure was based on the assumption that Montagliani, an insurance executive, would spend 2,000 hours working on Concacaf business. Some of Montagliani’s bonus includes work done in 2016, before the terms of his bonus were fixed. He pays taxes in both the United States and Canada.

Like most soccer organizations, annual income at Concacaf surges when the top regional competition is played. In good years, when the biennial Concacaf Gold Cup is played, revenue is about $100 million. When the Gold cup is not played, revenue drops to about $25 million. FIFA has budgeted $5.7 billion in earnings for the four-year cycle through the 2018 World Cup, and UEFA — through its own championship and also the lucrative Champions League — has projected collecting about $15.5 billion through its current four-year cycle.

Concacaf is battling to restore its nonprofit status in the United States, a designation that remains uncertain after the criminal indictments against several former officials, including Jeffrey Webb, the last permanent Concacaf president. Webb pleaded guilty to a raft of charges after he was arrested in Switzerland in 2015. An internal audit found he supplemented a $2 million salary with at least an additional $1 million in expense claims. Webb’s deputy at the time, who was later banned from soccer, approved those expenses.

Concacaf’s new regulations don’t allow for similar excesses. Private jet flights that once were common are now prohibited, as are stays at some of the world’s most exclusive hotels and limousines for top officials. Still, officials on the group’s executive committee are paid on average $125,000 a year. Efforts by some of the members to supplement that with bonuses were rejected. Montagliani gets an additional $300,000 for his role as one of eight vice presidents on FIFA’s governing council. The group meets three or four times each year.

Concacaf’s three-person compensation committee includes two independent members. They received a report from external experts who looked at the pay of top executives of similar sports organizations based in North America, including the United States Olympic Committee, top college sports organizations and Major League Soccer, whose commissioner, Don Garber, earns a base salary of $5 million.

Moggio said the compensation experts based Montagliani’s salary on the pay of his peer group.

“I can assure you he spends way more than 2,000 hours per year,” Moggio said. “He’s involved in every part of the business.”

At the height of the corruption crisis, outside consultants ran Concacaf as it teetered on the brink of collapse. Montagliani joined as the organization’s members approved a series of governance reforms. UEFA, by contrast, has largely been able to operate as it did before the scandal, although its former president Michel Platini was barred for receiving an illicit payment from FIFA. That has allowed Ceferin to enjoy a relatively stable tenure, with competitions like the Champions League continuing to swell the organization’s coffers.