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Is there a summary on what the money is spent and how many savings they have?
Thanks.
Half a million for the CEO of a non profit organisation sounds a lot to me. (180mio/year for all expenses including 900 employees worldwide if I understand it correctly?)
In relation: Wikimedia Germany claims, they need less than 10mio € (https://spenden.wikimedia.de/use-of-funds). They rely on the work of the Wikipedia Foundation I guess. Nevertheless I think I will look how to support them instead.
Eh, I think 500k is quite fair. She was hired from a successful career at a variety of nonprofits. As a negative comparison, see the ridiculous Mozilla Foundation, which paid their CEO nearly 7 million in 2023 to drive their browser into the ground and spout BS about AI ad tracking nonsense.
Mozilla Foundation, which paid their CEO nearly 7 million
Despite whataboutism, you are right.
Both salaries are so far away from the average that it feels immoral to me. 500k, if I would give 15$, it would require 34000 donations like mine to pay for just one person. (But that’s just the distance to my preferred utopia. Maybe she is extraordinary in her field and lots of money is required to have someone with her qualifications to work for you.)
Or in other metrics… I wasn’t able to find the cost for running the technical aspect of the platform. How much money is spent for servers, bandwidth, power, research and development? How does that compare to the overall budget? If that was (is) in a reasonable relation (at least 50%)…
