alt Hacker News> raised concerns about the proposed $300,000 salary for arXiv’s new CEO, saying it seemed high
Is a mid-to-high engineering salary outlandish for a CEO of what is likely to be a fairly major non-profit? Even non-profits have to be somewhat competitive when it comes to salary, and the ideal candidate is likely someone who would be balancing this against a tenured position at a major university
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Hendrikto • today at 11:06 AM
For anybody outside the SV, and especially outside the US, this seems high, yes.
arXiv does not need to and should not optimize for “shareholder value”, which is at least nominally the justification for outlandish CEO pay packages.
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HappyPanacea • today at 10:31 AM
arXiv's CEO doesn't need to be a tenured professor equivalent it is a preprint repository ffs.
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Salaries in the US are so bonkers. Everywhere else outside of the US, $300,000 is an outlandish high salary. To call it "mid to high" is insane.