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> Median salary is $300,000. Average is higher. Cry me a river. This is coming from someone paying himself 6 times this yearly salary... PER DAY!!! As much as

• jmathai 4y ago
  Found this relevant from Wikipedia: As of 2014, he had given over $4.5 billion to The Children's Investment Fund Foundation.[3] Hohn is worth $5 billion according to the Forbes billionaires list in 2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hohn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hohn
  • kevingadd 4y ago
    Hm, I wonder who runs 'The Children's Investment Fund Foundation'. I'm going to take a wild guess before checking that it's someone named Chris Hohn. > CIFF was established in 2002 by Sir Chris Hohn and wife, Jamie Cooper-Hohn as the philanthropic arm of Hohn's hedge fund, the Children's Investment Fund Management (TCI Fund Management) How generous! Giving over 4.5 billion dollars to himself!
    • jmathai 4y ago
      You should read about the work that his foundation does. Many billionaires set up foundations like this. Not sure where the skepticism comes from but surely he isn’t “giving over $4.5 billion to himself”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children%27s_Investment_Fund_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children%27s_Investment_Fu...
• mrweasel 4y ago
  Wouldn't that only mess up the average, not the median. A median of $300.000 would indicate that half of Googles employees makes less, and the other half makes more.
• MisterBastahrd 4y ago
  Yes, but he's rich, so he deserves it. Everybody knows that in capitalist America, the most deserving are those who have money by virtue of having money. Why would you work for money when you can just have it dumped into your lap because you're rich?