Thank you for this summary. The rate of turnover at Wikipedia is surprising to me.
On Sun, May 22, 2022, 9:00 AM Andreas Kolbe <jayen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > The WMF published its Form 990 for the 2020 calendar year a week ago[1], > along with an FAQ on Meta[2]. > > Some salient points: > > 1. In 2020, the number of Wikimedia employees whose total compensation and > benefits exceeded $300,000 went up to eight. They were:[3] > > Katherine Maher, ED ($423,318) > Grant Ingersoll, CTO ($355,523) > Amanda Keton, GC ($350,292) > Jaime Villagomez, CFO ($347,642) > Janeen Uzzell, COO ($336,068) > Anthony Negrin, CPO ($324,916) > Lisa Seitz, CAO ($323,293) > Robyn Arville, CT/CO ($306,579) > > In part this reflected salary increases of existing executives, in part it > was due to three new hires filling C-level vacancies (CTO, COO, CT/CO) at > significantly higher compensation levels than their predecessors. > > All three of those new hires are no longer with the WMF today, each > staying only around two years. > > Of the existing executives' salary increases, a couple seem reasonable > compared to the previous year's figures,[4] but in one case total > compensation went up by over 25% year on year, in another by 14%, without a > change in job title. (US inflation was at around 2% from 2010 to 2020.[5]) > > Note that present-day compensation levels are likely to be 10–15% higher > than the 2020 figures above. > > 2. Overall salary costs rose by $12 million on the year prior (we knew > this already from the audited financial statements released in December). > The FAQ now clarifies that the number of employees (320 in 2020, vs. 291 in > 2019) on page 1 of the Form 990 refers to US employees only, while the > salary costs figure given on the same page ($67.9M in 2020 vs. $55.6M in > 2019) also includes an unspecified number of non-US employees. I have asked > for more detailed information on Meta. > > Andreas > > [1] > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/e/e4/Wikimedia_Foundation_2020_Form_990.pdf > [2] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRS_tax_related_information/2020_Wikimedia_Foundation_Form_990_Frequently_Asked_Questions > [3] > https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AWikimedia_Foundation_2020_Form_990.pdf&page=48 > > [4] > https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AWikimedia_Foundation_2019_Form_990.pdf&page=48 > [5] > https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/12F13/production/_118478577_optimised-us.inflation-nc.png > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/DYQL235XGKDAEHO7VY3IW52CHUAC7ZAT/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
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