>EIC ... doing pretty much nothing. I'm friends with one EIC and a few associate editors and I can assure you they do a LOT of work. The EIC in particular, it'

>EIC ... doing pretty much nothing. I'm friends with one EIC and a few associate editors and I can assure you they do a LOT of work. The EIC in particular, it's like a full-time job, and that's for a fairly obscure journal. It takes a lot of effort to do the initial evaluation of any given submission, just to initially figure out which associate editor to assign it to. Springer pays her a tiny stipend to cover things like personal printing costs. Think something like $100/month (don't know the exact number but it's around there).