Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote:
... I do want to make sure you (and everyone else) realise that there is no FACT like the one that you mention.
"fact that the
Foundation's policy of paying below market salary discriminates against potential hires with large expenses such as kids in college or a mortgage from 2007?"
because a) there is no such policy....
So would you disagree with Erik Moeller's statement of 29 December 2012?
"[WMF compensation is] below some companies that are similar to us, notably Mozilla which is structured as a for-profit owned by a non-profit and pays market-level compensation (sans equity). Wikimedia is above most non-profits that do tech work, and there's a fair bit of room to grow compensation-wise for an entry-level hire. It's not what people could make elsewhere, and that's understood by folks who make it through the process." -- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-December/123272.html
Finally I find the idea of restraining people to talk about salary almost comical....
Would you post the text of the non-disparagement clause referred to at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/April_5-7,_2008#Non-disparagemen... and http://uk.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Water_cooler&diff=19657&ol... please, so we can see exactly what it says?