Oddbean new post about login | logout If you want bad employees pay nothing. If you want good employees who are effective be prepared to pay.
Pay over $200k? Are you retarded?
No, that is not all that much money for an entire family to live off of in a large city. The pay is in line with standard executive compensation for a mid sized organization of $30,000,000 annually. Listen… with an estimated $300,000,000 in play over 10 years, you desperately need good leadership. Poor leadership and execution means that money gets squandered and is not effective. Good leadership ensures maximum and effective impact. If you get some incompetent leadership in there, you aren’t even going to be able to raise money much less execute. If you take a look, they have a lot on their plate. I don’t know what the obsession is with insisting everyone who’s making the world better live in squalor.
Strawman. I never said he has to live in squalor. The salaries are excessive, it doesn’t matter where you live. Not everyone should live beachside and if you chose a career in humanitarian aid then you shouldn’t expect to afford such luxuries. You don’t need to live in LA. But that doesn’t mean you should be poor. You’re describing HRF like it’s a for profit business instead of a charity. Money should be going toward helping people not funding luxurious salaries.
Depending on the job. It usually takes at least $200k to get good experienced software engineers in the US (in latin america it's around $60k+). I'm talking from experience of hiring multiple engineers recently. Honestly the HRF numbers don't surprise/outrage me, but your mileage may vary.
It surprises me because they are NOT engineers lmao
They’re doing more than engineers hidden somewhere on an org chart with a manager above them. You’re looking at people leading the entire operation.
It’s not a business man smh there are people running nonprofits taking minimal or no salary. Not saying they shouldn’t get paid but a lot of people would be upset if they knew how much of their money was paying these luxurious salaries.
HRF is based in NY and Alex, who you’re calling out here by name, is based in SF. $228k is NOT luxurious in SF. That’s condo money, not house money. I obviously don’t know his home life, but if he’s raising a family that’s barely enough unless he has another spouse/partner also working. People running nonprofits taking no salary are either: 1. Not doing it full-time or 2. Have family money and do not need to work. Locking people out of working in the nonprofit world because they don’t have a trust fund is regressive. There are plenty of small nonprofits that have great intentions but do not have much impact. HRF has $30,000,000 a year and, you must concede, has impact and donors who expect results. Nonprofits of this scale have full-time employees who need money to support their families. It’s not unheard of for a Chief Strategy Officer in the for profit world making half a million or more in total compensation in Silicon Valley. If you don’t agree with his compensation, talk to the donors. Or talk to him. They’re both engaging in voluntary acts.
I called out everyone but he’s the only one on nostr. They made much less in 2020 and 2021 but still managed to live in New York 🤡 You’re strawmanning me again. I never said anything about trust funds. I did try to talk to them. I tagged Alex and HRF but got no response.