[Wikimedia-l] compromise?

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Sat Jan 5 19:51:33 UTC 2013


On 5 January 2013 19:32, ENWP Pine <deyntestiss at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Also, I will stand up and say that I, for one, am not a fan of WMF trying to
> match market pay in the SF area. I am interested WMF in retaining qualified
> and motivated employees, and I am interested in employee job satisfaction
> which includes pay as only one of many factors. If pay was a widespread
> problem then I'm sure Gayle and Eric would be seeing that. I expect that,
> as with many nonprofits, the mission of the nonprofit and the satisfaction
> of working on the mission with like-minded people will compensate for the
> lower monetary compensation.


Anyone in IT knows that there's such a thing as "charity scale", where
you get paid less because you're working for a nonprofit in exchange
for less stress and/or doing actual good in the world.`


- d.



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