there is just a smaller talent pool of both extremely skilled and dedicated potential employees to draw from
We have been screening fairly selectively on having an EA mindset, though, so I’m not sure how much larger our pool is compared to other EA orgs. In fact, you could maybe argue the opposite—given the prevalence of long-termism among the most involved EAs, it may be harder to convince them to work for us.
So the data seems to imply leaders at EA orgs which already have a dozen staff would pay 20%+ of their budget for the next single marginal hire.
From my vantage point, though, their actions don’t seem consistent with this view.
We have been screening fairly selectively on having an EA mindset, though, so I’m not sure how much larger our pool is compared to other EA orgs. In fact, you could maybe argue the opposite—given the prevalence of long-termism among the most involved EAs, it may be harder to convince them to work for us.
From my vantage point, though, their actions don’t seem consistent with this view.
Yeah, I’m still left with more questions than answers.