On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 8:27 PM, Tony Le tle@wikimedia.org wrote:
A notable exception is information related to the compensation of our officers, key employees, highest paid staff and independent contractors, which is instead based on the 2015 calendar year.
Thank you. I have two questions:
1. Does the above statement mean that any severance pay or other special compensation Lila Tretikov might have received at the end of her tenure in 2016 will only show in the 2016 Form 990, due in about a year's time?
2. Speaking of severance pay, I note that Erik Möller's compensation seems to have increased from almost exactly $200,000 in the 2014 calendar year[1] to a little over $302,000 in the 2015 calendar year[2], despite the fact that, as far as I recall, he left the Foundation on April 30th 2015[3] and thus only worked 4 of the year's 12 months.
If Erik was paid at the same rate in 2015 as he was in 2014, he would have stood to receive salary payments of around $67,000.
This is almost a quarter of a million dollars less than his actual compensation according to the form released now.
Is this $235,000 discrepancy wholly or partly due to a severance payment Erik received at the end of his employment, and if so, what was the amount and the rationale?
Andreas
[1] Page 52 in https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/2/27/Form_990_FY_2014-2015... [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AWikimedia_Foundatio... [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-April/077516.html