Charity ads. Silly question.

most of us aren’t weighing up being the CEO for a profit making company or the CEO of a charity.

I’m not daft; but I’m simply not in the same league as people who earn 7 figure salaries.

my socialist principles think it stinks that people should earn that much at the expense of society (and it doesn’t help the economy). But we live in a capitalist culture and we have to pay lots of money for talent.

as far as marketing money goes- who does more good’; a charity that spends £10k on marketing and is left with £90k for front line help or one who spends £1m on marketing but then has £8m for frontline help.

It’d be nice if life was black and white; if we could easily sort people into good and bad, but it’s not so simple. Charities unfortunately need good management and that costs, and every charity needs our attention and that costs money too.

 

My sceptical side comes from something I learnt several years ago.
An old workmate of mine’s Dad used to spend his weekend evenings taxiing around two young lasses, selling roses for charity in town centre pubs and clubs.
At the end of the night, he got £100 CASH, plus petrol money, and each of the girls also got £100 cash ‘if they had enough in the bucket’.
Now also, the roses won’t have come for free.
So, how much might have been donated to their charity after their three wages, their bosses cut plus the cost of the roses?

 

I’m not sure anyone who ever bought one of those roses assumed the ‘charity’ angle was genuine.

 

I worked as a Registered Nurse for Sue Ryder Care for a while, of course I was paid, I was paid a competitive wage for the job, roughly equivalent to NHS rates. I can't understand why people think you shouldn't be paid for working for a charity, donations come in and from those donations goods or services are provided, in my case it paid for my knowledge, expertise and skills to be provided at no cost to the recipient, their families or the taxpayer.

 

You were being paid to provide the care that the charity existed to provide. I think the argument being made by some was more about the bosses being paid large sums to run the charity. But a charity cannot exist in a state of chaos, it needs to be managed like any other organisation. And the larger charities, being very complex organisations, need to be managed by highly skilled professional people who therefore earn a lot of money. It's just the way it is.

 

You’re right, it’s exactly the same principle, the salary for the bosses has to compete with equivalent posts in the public & private sector otherwise you wouldn’t attract the people with the abilities to run such a large organisation.