[Newsbot]

Title: Thousands of charity workers earning six-figure salaries
Category: Business
Posted By: wildrosegirl
Date: 2011-07-10 13:40:06
Canadian

[Bacardi4206]

6, 000 made 120, 000? a couple hundred made 350, 000? Wow, no wonder shits not getting done around the world. These people are keeping all the financial aid for themselves.

[Strutz]

Rather disheartening isn't it?

[jeff744]

And people wonder why I don't give to charity.

[Regina]

New meaning to the term passing the hat.........that's one big hat!
Not surprised at all.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Old news and still not surprising.

[sandorski]

Once you get into the details it's not too bad. Undoubtedly there will be some with inappropriate Salaries, but the argument about attracting Talent makes sense for some of the Charities.

[desertdude]

What would be interesting is to see how much they actually spend on "charitable" causes and the salaries and admin takes a good chunk, then something needs to be done.

If an organisation "earns" a 100 mil and 60 goes to running the place then there is something very wrong there !

[DVC185]

It is very easy to find the salary range of a charity's top ten employees. You should be able to sort it out from the attached pics which depicts the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

I think I'll stick with my policy of local giving.

[bootlegga]

Well, the article notes that some of the 'charities' included here are universities, hospitals and churches. Many universities and hospitals in this country pay their top people about half a million a year or more. And while 6000 out of a million sounds bad, that's less than 1% of all staff working at charities nationwide. That means that the vast majority of people working for charities are pulling in far less.

I've volunteered for several local Edmonton charities and in all of them, the Executive Director never made more than $50,000/year, which given the requirements was a huge pay cut from what they could have earned working for the private/public sectors. All of them were small and only had around $500,000 annually to deliver services, which is the category where most charities on this list probably fall into.

[andyt]

Good points, Boots. In BC we pay the head of BC Ferries 1 million a year and he gets 300,000 a year when he retires. We should be much more outraged about that.

Tho there was a scandal with United Way a few years back, and some people were being way too greedy.