On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Fae <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm hoping that the WMF can set a lead by publishing a calculation of > admin ratio for themselves. ;-) > > PS staff salaries are not all automatically 'admin', I hope we can > agree that some > program activities are entirely justifiably supported by paid staff > and contractors. > > This is tangential to the main thread, but relevant to this point. Fully agree that all staff salaries are not automatically 'admin'. Some institutional donors outside the wikiverse are now asking for activity-based budgets instead of traditional line item budgets to separate salaries into 'admin' and 'programmatic'. So in this kind of budget, a programmatic salary is budgeted under that programmatic activity along with other program components as programmatic input (and often called a 'program resource', rather than a salary, which is somewhat vague.)
But just wanted to make the point that donors are recognizing this issue overall, specially since some program activities are labour or human-intensive. Best Bishakha _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l