Yep! A few of our team members have chosen to do this (including myself).
(Note: It’s always been initiated by the team member themselves and there isn’t any expectation from the organisation which I think would be a problem.)
I do still donate to other things too. I think that beyond the direct impact of those donations it helps to be able to advocate to a broader audience when some of my impact-focused donations are more legible and relatable.
Also at GWWC we budget salaries at the full amount (calculated by a formula) as any salary sacrifices as donations are voluntary and reversible and we also want to ensure we have budgeted for the cost to replace someone using the same salary formula (eg if a researcher at our 3B level based in Oxford with 5 years experience leaves we’d want to have budgeted to replace them). For cost effectiveness calculations the salary sacrificed donations is ideally counted as income and the budgeted/offered salary counted as costs.
More on the trade-offs around voluntary salary reduction: Passing up Pay.
When I asked them about this last year they said you could count it if it was voluntary and easily reversed.
Yep! A few of our team members have chosen to do this (including myself).
(Note: It’s always been initiated by the team member themselves and there isn’t any expectation from the organisation which I think would be a problem.)
I do still donate to other things too. I think that beyond the direct impact of those donations it helps to be able to advocate to a broader audience when some of my impact-focused donations are more legible and relatable.
Also at GWWC we budget salaries at the full amount (calculated by a formula) as any salary sacrifices as donations are voluntary and reversible and we also want to ensure we have budgeted for the cost to replace someone using the same salary formula (eg if a researcher at our 3B level based in Oxford with 5 years experience leaves we’d want to have budgeted to replace them). For cost effectiveness calculations the salary sacrificed donations is ideally counted as income and the budgeted/offered salary counted as costs.