Should Mitchell Baker give most of 1 billion back to Mozilla?
Should Mitchell Baker give most of 1 billion back to Mozilla?
Posted Aug 12, 2020 12:09 UTC (Wed) by tsdgeos (guest, #69685)In reply to: Should Mitchell Baker give most of 1 billion back to Mozilla? by jch
Parent article: Baker: Changing World, Changing Mozilla
Posted Aug 12, 2020 13:42 UTC (Wed)
by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
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Setting aside that the topic was CEO salaries and not developers, it is typically the case that non-profit salaries are lower than corporate salaries and it is possible, even likely the case that free software developers on an average get less than proprietary software developers assuming margins for free software products are lower
Posted Aug 12, 2020 14:12 UTC (Wed)
by tsdgeos (guest, #69685)
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I don't disagree that NGO and Free Software companies usually pay less.
What i am saying is that they should not pay less.
As the Free Software community we should reject that people are just paid less because they are doing "what they like", otherwise we're simply punishing them for liking the common good.
Posted Aug 12, 2020 14:53 UTC (Wed)
by clump (subscriber, #27801)
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What about the salaries of others besides the CEO at Mozilla? I don't know what people make inside of Mozilla but should Free Software developers at non-profits be paid less (or even be laid off) while the CEO (and perhaps other executives) should be paid more? Executive salary at Mozilla is very relevant when others are losing their jobs.
Posted Aug 12, 2020 17:47 UTC (Wed)
by bracher (subscriber, #4039)
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Posted Aug 12, 2020 23:00 UTC (Wed)
by roc (subscriber, #30627)
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Posted Aug 14, 2020 7:40 UTC (Fri)
by liam (guest, #84133)
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Looks like the next highest is $295 000.
However, CEO's base salary is $450 000 (page 52). The other $2 000 000 is under bonus and incentive compensation. It's the latter one that might be questionable.
Posted Sep 10, 2020 12:30 UTC (Thu)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Posted Aug 12, 2020 23:23 UTC (Wed)
by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
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That position could potentially be satisfied with executives like these in general getting paid less than they are right now. You could tie that as a proportion of the average pay in the organization for instance across the industry
Posted Aug 13, 2020 7:49 UTC (Thu)
by ale2018 (guest, #128727)
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Until we measure success by salary amount, we're not "how the world should be".
Posted Aug 13, 2020 12:58 UTC (Thu)
by anton (subscriber, #25547)
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Should Mitchell Baker give most of 1 billion back to Mozilla?
Should Mitchell Baker give most of 1 billion back to Mozilla?
Should Mitchell Baker give most of 1 billion back to Mozilla?
Keep in mind that non-profit status also means that there is no hope of equity compensation, so salary will likely adjust up to account for that. Rings true based on conversations with a few friends who have worked for Mozilla in technical roles, they were paid more than they would have been at a for-profit tech company because compensation at the for-profit would have included stock options or grants.
Should Mitchell Baker give most of 1 billion back to Mozilla?
Should Mitchell Baker give most of 1 billion back to Mozilla?
Should Mitchell Baker give most of 1 billion back to Mozilla?
Should Mitchell Baker give most of 1 billion back to Mozilla?
Should Mitchell Baker give most of 1 billion back to Mozilla?
Should Mitchell Baker give most of 1 billion back to Mozilla?
Should Mitchell Baker give most of 1 billion back to Mozilla?
I am not say "how the world is", i'm saying "how the world should be".
In the world, as it should be, CEOs are not paid more than five times the lowest wage in their company.