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>>nickpa+(OP)
> Top tier managers earn between $300,000 and $400,000 a year, and dozens are employed exclusively on fund-raising.

Can someone corroborate this claim? Cause any way you look at it, these salaries are unethical for a non-profit organisation.

>>bjourn+hi
These people can earn millions in executive positions of for-profit companies, why would they work for this supposed company of yours that pays "ethical" salaries?

>>vultou+Yk
For the love of Wikipedia. Just like the hundreds of thousands of people who edit articles for no pay at all. It makes no sense believing that building an online encyclopaedia can be done for free but that managing it would require top dollar salaries.

The implication of your comment is that Wikipedia wouldn't function it if didn't generously compensate its executives because it would fail to attract competent staff. That view has been vindicated by, for example, European left-wing parties who cap their politicians' and administrators' salaries at the national median. No evidence suggests that left-wing parties therefore attract less qualified candidates than right-wing parties.