Motivation:
Yesterday I got a posting from the head office of the charity I work for, for 2 jobs in Calgary. I sent them off to a friend of mine in Calgary joking I was going to move in with her.She replied back that her daughter was making more money at Tim Horton's than these positions were paying. I hadn't even opened the attachment to really read them.
So the positions were paying $14 and her daughter was making $15 at Tim Horton's.
Now I realize that the employment situation in Calgary is driving up the 'fast-food' wage (which is a good thing) so this would not be the norm.
Monday night at our labour council meeting, there was a summary of some of the concerns labour council presidents had brought to a meeting, and one was that thier relevant charity had not hired a labour rep because they didn't want to pay the significantly higher wages that the council was demanding this person be paid, because then the whole office would have to get revamped, salary wise.
But it got me thinking about charities and wages.
We all hate to see the CEO or Executive Director of a charity with large salaries (present company excepted, I'd love to see myself with an obscenely large pay check ) but staffing and such overhead is always one of the largest expenses of a charity.
So I was interested in feedback on how they perceive the entitlement of the charitable sector vs say manufacturing or energy etc?