Talk:Wikimedia Foundation salaries

Comparisons

Is there any meaningful comparison to make? Friend non-profits whose employees need similar competences and whose balance is above 10 M$ maybe? Linux Foundation, EFF, ... Around 1 M$? FSF, Conservancy, FSFE, ... --Nemo 00:50, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Tough to compare; many of those don't really do their own major software development or web site hosting, so don't have as many engineers or the managers/etc to support/organize them. Mozilla might be similar in some ways but is also a different beast from us, with a different funding model and whatnot. --brion (talk) 21:28, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

I'm not sure how "own major software development or web site hosting" matters, can you explain? Do executives for that sort of activity have a different cost? I would have thought that what matters is mainly headcount, budget size, competing employers. Nemo 17:32, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

There's only a few executives, and their purpose and balance is based on how the organization works and what it does. Of course if we're narrowly looking at the ED and a couple C-levels and ignoring the rest of the list, then maybe not an issue. --brion (talk) 18:55, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

I've looked at the list again and I don't see any role that would be so extremely special as to be impossible to compare. It's possible however that different (kinds of= organisations should be used as comparison for different roles. For instance maybe for engineering roles you'd even look at Red Hat and Canonical, for fundraising at any large-scale donation receiver, for finance etc. at any charity above a certain balance. Is this your underlying point? Nemo 21:38, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Quick note from Brion

Quick note -- I made a higher salary in FY 2008-2009 after the relocation to San Francisco, but got dropped off the list for that year because we had more managers at higher pay grades and the law at the time required disclosing only the top 3, not top 5 earners. After that I think I dropped further down the list. :) --brion (talk) 21:26, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Lila

Lila worked all of 2015 User:Catrope from what I remember. She only moved on in 2016 per [1]. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:26, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

These are financial years (so 2015 is 2015 July to 2016 June). The table headers should probably clarify that. --Tgr (talk) 07:47, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

The salaries are for the 2015 calendar year.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 14:55, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

That would be surprising as Form 990 is for the financial year and has no monthly breakdown of salaries. --Tgr (talk) 10:54, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

User:Tgr read page 10. It states "Report compensation for the calendar year ending with or within the organization's tax year.[2] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 13:40, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Uh, you are right. Then probably the person adding the footnotes just assumed the columns are financial years. --Tgr (talk) 23:28, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Gros Salaires tout de même !

Je viens de faire un don à WIKIMEDIA FONDATION mais quand je vois le niveau de salaires des personnes travaillant à la fondation pour un but non lucratif... Je reste dubitatif. Je suis moi même patron d'une PME avec une indemnités de entre 35000 et 45000 €/an net en fonction des années. Moyenne des patrons de PME en France 65000 € Moyenne des cadres dirigeants en france : 100000 € Pas sûr du tout de refaire un don...

currency?

Although it's semi-obvious that these numbers are USD, it would be a good idea to indicate that on each table (if not each table cell).

Done. Legoktm (talk) 20:52, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

CCO overload

There's now 3 titles that abbreviate to CCO: Chief Communications Officer, Chief Creative Officer, and Chief Community Officer. Legoktm (talk) 20:55, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

I hear you, but really those are not in use at the same time. Right now neither Chief Communications nor Chief Community Officer are in use (or even have been for quite a long time). Delphine (WMF) (talk) 08:11, 1 September 2020 (UTC)