Large salaries paid to
charity staff could “bring the charitable world into disrepute”, a regulator
has warned.
Charity
Commission chairman William Shawcross said organisations must ask if pay levels
are “really appropriate”.
The Daily Telegraph reported 30 staff at
14 leading UK foreign aid charities were paid £100,000 or more last year.
That is an eye-watering amount of
money to be paying anybody let alone the boss of a charitable organisation,
what’s more unnerving is the comment from Sir Stephen Bubb who said that the
big national and international charities need to offer big salaries to “attract
the best talent to those jobs”.
The choice of words is very
interesting because it’s precisely what the big banks say when they try and
justify excessive bonuses, and besides that I thought the whole idea of charity
was to give.
It’s a very contradictory message
these charity bosses are sending, their happy to give their time to run a
charity so long as their lavishly paid for the privilege.
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