Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Absolutely Stan, it must be around 15 years ago that a director of Guide dogs for the blind was on £69k a year, heaven knows what he is on now. That's an awful lot of donations not reaching the people they were intended for. Of course they have to be paid but they like so many in 'positions' they allow their greed to run riot.
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You mean like a sitting MP being bribed with a Knight-hood to stand down for a Boris to step into a safe seat.


That would also make them a hoody.

251,

DON'T FORGET, you are paying for their SKILLS of milking the situation.

Seems that a tory MP was offering to sell similar skills to the Albanians.

Who would have believed it!

red1---as I said, 'like so many in positions'.
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Average salary of top-100 charity boss exceeds £166k


Governance | Tania Mason | 31 Aug 2011

http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/governance/news/content/10344/average_salary_of_top-100_charity_boss_exceeds_166k


The average salary of the chief executives of the UK’s top-100 charities is £166,048, exclusive new research by civilsociety.co.uk has shown.

This represents an increase of around 10 per cent on the average salary in 2009, which was £151,563.

The figure is contained in the Leadership Survey 2011 published in the September edition of Charity Finance magazine. The research, which explores the age, gender, background and pay of the chief executives of the UK biggest 100 charities, is carried out every two years.

In this year’s study, 27 of the CEOs profiled were new to the list, and of these newcomers just one in ten came to their job from the private sector. Around half came directly from the public sector and one-third came from a charity post. The remaining 10 per cent joined from the armed forces.

The top five earners in the list were all men, and when their salaries were removed the average salary fell to £138, 949.

Forty of the 100 leaders were interviewed as part of the study and this sample said that their most time-consuming task was service delivery, followed by policy development and dealing with trustees.

What strata of society do they fit into.

Thanks for that MaxK, bit of an eye-opener what. The top five must be picking up obscene salaries, nice work if you can get it, what expenses are they allowed on top of their salaries I wonder.
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Same as some MPs think they are entitled to.

So the top 5 salaries between them are responsible for almost £3.4 million.Like I said, obscene.
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So? What are we going to do about it?

george - no idea what your question was, and in any case, i see everything is now swamped by the customary ranting posters .... glad i was far better employed by a decent lunch with a good m/e client

"glad i was far better employed by a decent lunch with a good m/e client"... Well isn't that bleeding typical, he spends half the day down the pub or restaurant living it up on who.. Us that's who, what scrounger.

... Employed? my rear end!






































P.S. Got any jobs your place Andy? -):

scrounger? .... hardly; i paid ..... no chips on shoulder or otherwise either

cynic
One for you.

I am sitting in a cafe with my tablet. I looked for WiFi points to connect with. The cafe has a very strong signal, so I used that. I did notice one that must have been set up by someone with a sense of humour. It was called

The Promised LAN

I don't have a problem with people who are good at what they do being paid big salaries, when you consider we have loads upon loads of very untalented footballers in this country being paid ridiculous amounts of money. Tiger Woods was paid £2.3million in appearance money to play in a golf tournament in Turkey recently and that was in addition to the healthy cheque he made for finishing second. Absolutely obscene in my view, especially considering the guy is a terrible role model for youngsters. I am well aware some of the money I give to charitable organisations in this country helps to pay salaries and people who think that all those who work for charitable orginisations should give their time for free live in cloud cuckoo land.

doodlebug4 I agree re footballers and golfers, in fact most sports these days have mega buck earners producing mediocre performances, and of course people working for charities have to be paid, (I've not seen a post here suggesting they shouldn't be paid). The point is the directors/CEO's of many charities are taking obscenely huge salaries at the expense of the very people those charities were set up to help.
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as far as i can see, very few golfers even within the world's top 50/100 make that much money in either the short or medium or long term ..... tiger woods is something of an exception due to his quite extraordinary talent .... his off course performance has however, cost him a very considerable fortune, though george best (inter alia) would have considered those misdemeanours piffling

as an almost relevant additional comment, professional golfers have an extraordinarily high degree of integrity and sportsmanship on the course, of which there are many examples ..... the same most assuredly cannot be said of professional soccer players!

cynic - I think both Tours need to address the problem of professional golfers spitting on the golf course - T Woods is the worst offender, followed by Keegan Bradley, Justin Johnston, Jim Furyk etc. There is absolutely no need for it. I think pro golfers within the top 100, either in America or Europe make a reasonable living. The bloke in 100th place on the European Tour earnings has made nearly E4,000,000, not bad for a journeyman pro. Plus his sponsorship deals, whatever they amount to.

It's not just the salaries!

Don't let's forget the 6* Expenses that goes with the 6* Salaried Remuneration Level.

By that I mean, e.g. "Trouble in the Philipines?" sorta kinda.....

.....and off go the top charity exec's in a chauffered limo to the airport to enjoy 5* seats/travel/food/drink all the way there, so that when they arrive, they are 'fresh and at their best', can have a peep at the troubles and tell someone else 'where' and 'what' to do and exactly 'how' to get their hands dirty.

A group of councillors who were kicked out of Ukip have vowed to continue - under the banner of 'Ukig'.

The men have named their group the 'UK Independence Group' - leading to Nigel Farage's party taking legal action.

The five members of Lincolnshire County Council were suspended from the party for following expelled group leader Chris Pain into a breakaway group in September.

A spokesman for Farage told Spalding Today: “We have taken legal advice and Ukip members cannot call themselves Ukig. A breakaway group would be a new party. It’s ridiculous and confusing to the electorate.”

Pain told HuffPost UK the name did not represent a political party, adding: "Nobody's ever contacted me about it... we just changed it last week.

"We could be the Mickey Mouse fan club... it's not a political party."

In September, police dropped an inquiry into Pain after alleged racist comments were posted on his Facebook page. Pain said he had been hacked.

He said he had been kicked out for "whistleblowing" on the party's selection process and for recording a phone conversation with a senior Ukip figure.

"They are trying to use this as a tool to take me out of the party," he added, saying he was taking legal action against his expulsion.

A Ukip spokeswoman confirmed Pain had been expelled from the party, "following a disciplinary procedure".