> "Please explain how your salary of $2.5 million couldn't be put to better use as part of Emerging Technology's budget?" Why should a nonprofit's CEO be paid

> "Please explain how your salary of $2.5 million couldn't be put to better use as part of Emerging Technology's budget?" Why should a nonprofit's CEO be paid that much? Why the hell? I can't grasp this. I don't even understand why they'd make more than a few times what the typical programmer in the organization makes.