Erik Moeller, 30/11/2011 07:03: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Nathan wrote:
[...] >> * The budget includes a whopping $14 million on staffing costs (at the >> planned 117 number of staff, that is nearly $120k per staff member) > > The 2010-11 staffing budget is $13.3M. [5] Staffing costs include > payroll taxes, recruiting costs, and benefits, and of course pay bands > for different roles vary significantly, but are consistent with > similar non-profit organizations, i.e. below the market rate paid at > for-profit companies. > > More background about the guiding principles of Wikimedia's > compensation practices can be found in [7]. [...] > [7] <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/2/2a/Wikimedia_Foundation_Compensation_Practices.pdf> Thank you for mentioning this (and thanks to people who worked on it too), I found it very interesting. What I don't understand, especially given the nature of the WMF staff (at large), is that there is no mention at all of international differences; I heard that they're somehow taken care of, but it would be very nice to have them briefly documented. As it is, this document would seem to be only about San-Francisco indefinite employees. For instance: «benefits package for all staff, which includes medical, dental, vision and life insurance» doesn't apply to non-USA based staffers, I guess (they might not even need one), but it's not said what happens to them; «Staff receive an annual vacation allotment, which ranges from 5-20 working days», but no mention of whether this is adjusted to local vacation/public holidays laws; there's nothing about notice periods for termination or non-renewal of contracts (another thing which varies a lot across countries). Nemo P.s.: I hope you'll be forgiving of my English terminology mistakes. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
