They need to pay that much to attract top talent.
TOP...TALENT.
People got to get paid. The Susan G. Komen organization has got to be bigger than a lot of corporations. I bet a CEO of a corporation half the size of Komen gets paid that much easily.
Problem is, corporations sell products for profits. You don't need to sell anything I'd you're a non-profits and live on donations. If you're doing it for profits, you're doing it wrong. Why do I need to pay you too, if the money is better spent on the cause that I'm donating to?
The Komen org. takes in something like $350,000,000 a year. That's a lot of money to sort out and spend, and a lot of events to organize. When it gets that big, I doubt a do-gooder who works for free is going to cut it.
Yeah it's sickening how even lot of "non profit" charities are actually for profit. Makes you wonder which charities are good to donate to and which are bad. I tend to be reluctant to give to the bigger ones because they're probably more likely to have lot of overhead, politics and crap.
The Komen org. takes in something like $350,000,000 a year. That's a lot of money to sort out and spend, and a lot of events to organize. When it gets that big, I doubt a do-gooder who works for free is going to cut it.
This.You can look on guidestar.org and review the 990's of all not for profits. Scroll through the financials and you will see the salaries for the key leaders, board of directors, etc.
People got to get paid. The Susan G. Komen organization has got to be bigger than a lot of corporations. I bet a CEO of a corporation half the size of Komen gets paid that much easily.
"It's about a quarter of a million dollars more than what we see for charities of this size. . . . This is more than the head of the Red Cross is making for an organization that is one-tenth the size of the Red Cross," Ken Berger, the president and CEO of charity evaluator Charity Navigator, told NBC.
Wasn't the CEO the one who decided to stop funding Planned Parenthoods breast cancer screening because they also did abortions?

This is precisely why I donate only to children's hospital Boston, and only directly to the hospital.
