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Wikipedia is a non-profit foundation. $374k is a pretty damn good salary for a foundation.

• mratsim 5y ago
  If you want to attract the best talents you also need sufficient benefits. A sense of purpose alone won't let you lodge in cities with high cost of living. If anything, I dare say running a non-profit usually requires a lot more skills, especially people skills and passion than a tech job. I'm not sure how it is in the US but in Europe there is this sense of entitlement when you talk to people that because you work at a non-profit you should work for free. If I give my valuable time to contribute to the world at large, I expect to be able to have decent living conditions.
  • plutonorm 5y ago
    What do they have to do? Their only job is to keep the servers running. Everything else is a task they invented for themselves to earn more money.
    • malka 5y ago
      beg to us every year.
  • PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago
    > If you want to attract the best talents you also need sufficient benefits. Same line used in defense of corporate board hiring practices, and as in that case, stated without evidence to support the claim.
  • pmoriarty 5y ago
    "If you want to attract the best talents you also need sufficient benefits." Oh come on! What talent do they need that a million much lower paid people don't have?
  • jiofih 5y ago
    How did we go from $400k to “decent living conditions” here?