[governance] FW: [] ICANN President: $750,000+$195,000 bonus vs

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

You compare ICANN to profit making corporations.  I do not think that is appropriate.

ICANN should be compared to an NGO as a non profit for the good of the public corporation.  By and large, it is not considered proper to pay CEOs more then $500,000 in this environment - and when it happens, it is controversial.  Even American Red Cross only pays 	around 500,000 per year.  And we cannot say the work of ICANN is more complex or more important than that.

Of course JP Morgan's Partners HealthCare Systems in Boston takes home $2.7 million, so if ICANN is more like the healthcare industry then like a stewardship NGO, there is a ways to grow yet.

a.



On 13 Feb 2010, at 14:56, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote:

> Hello Michael Gurstein
> 
> I feel that $ 750, 000 + is perfectly alright. Given his background and exposure, any business corporation should have been willing to 'poach' Rod Beckstorm from wherever he was for well over a million dollars a year. So, he is not overpaid by ICANN.
> 
> This was one of the topics that I wrote about in Circle ID a year ago, http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090106_icann_pay_more_increase_spending/ome thing that I wrote last year in Circle ID , if it is of any interest.
> 
> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 7:12 PM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com>
> Date: February 12, 2010 12:14:42 AM EST
> To: David Farber <dave at farber.net>
> Subject: ICANN President: $750,000+$195,000 bonus vs President of US:
> $400,000
> Reply-To: karl at cavebear.com
> 
> 
> ICANN has published, as it must as a tax exempt charitable corporation, the
> salary it gifts unto its President:  http://bit.ly/ametyG
> 
> ICANN's president gets $750,000 plus a $195,000 spiff - $945,000, plus
> expenses.
> 
> The amount is more than double the compensation of the President of the
> United Status: $400,000 plus $50,000 for expenses.
> 
> The amount is about four times the compensation of the Secretary General of
> the United Nations.
> 
> Is there perhaps some truth to the rumor that ICANN is soon going to be
> buying a pair of Airbus 380's to call "Domain Name One" as they transport
> its President?
> 
>        --karl--
> 
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