I looked into this, as I have agreed with family I’d do a charitable donation instead of Christmas cards this year–I am always slightly put off though when I see what some CEOs of some charities earn, this one is a certain David Neiswander who earns US$271,165 p/a.
Is anyone else put off donating to charities when looking at CEO salaries? What runs through my mind is (a) why is my donation propping up their (in my view) excessive salary; and (b) why doesn’t the CEO donate (at least) half their own salary (or more) to the cause, and so lead by example?
I had been thinking of NSPCC for my Christmas donation, but again, when I checked, a massive CEO salary, doesn’t seem right to me, to ask for donations from the public when CEOs are ‘fat cats’ and most of us could ony dream of salaries of that order…