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The head of a non-profit shouldn't be raking in millions. Not even in the Valley! Instead they dreamed up the idea of being a multi-billion corporation next to

• OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
  The fundamental problem with non-profit executive pay is that they earn their keep. Even more directly than CEOs in a for-profit space. The CEO of a non-profit has approximately one job: convince rich people to give the non-profit large amounts of money. It turns out, rich people know other rich people. And rich people who know how to convince other rich people to give them large amounts of money are a scarce resource, that non-profits squabble over. So you've got a scarce labor pool, with expensive lifestyles, and a very directly obvious ROI. That alone is a recipe for high salaries. Combine that with the inflation that comes from the fact that for-profit executives get to hide a huge portion of their compensation as stock, whereas non-profits pretty much exclusively offer salary, and you end up with apparently bloated non-profit executive salaries.
  • pjmlp 2mo ago
    Outside US, many non-profit organisations, the management gets as much money as most other folks that also contribute their free time. There are no goals and bonus to share, quarter earnings and whatever else.
  • dingaling 2mo ago
    > convince rich people to give the non-profit large amounts of money And yet Google's funding remains 85% of Mozilla's income, so that 'convincing' doesn't seem to be worth paying for.