Re:Goodwill doesn't want broken toasters
by seoaeu on Friday May 07, 2021 @06:36PM
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Sub-minimum wage pay is obviously bad, but why does everyone seem to think that non-profit CEOs shouldn't get competitive salaries? Goodwill has tens of thousands of employees and something like $6 billion in annual revenue. Anyone with the demonstrated skills and experience to run an organization of that scale could earn a very generous compensation package in the private sector.
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Re:Goodwill doesn't want broken toasters
by jodrellblank on Saturday May 08, 2021 @11:28PM
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> "why does everyone seem to think that non-profit CEOs shouldn't get competitive salaries?"
Because the only places they can get salaries from is the donors who think they are donating to help the charity cases. Donating "$2 to save a child's life" and then finding you donated a quarter millionth of the salary which keeps the CEO in the 1% of earners, sucks.
Why should CEOs anywhere get significant salaries? The gap between the lowest and highest paid position always matters, non profit or not.
Why does the gap between lowest and highest paid workers at a company matter?
For example, if you took a company and split it into two companies, one with the higher paid half of the workforce and one with the lower paid, would that be improving the world?
Because it implies an unequal distribution of the profits from the labor people invest in the company.
And splitting the company in two like you proposed would almost certainly result in some pretty big changes, as one company would be all workers and the other would be all bosses.