You should be influenced by that! It is evidence for donors thinking that org is more important, and that org thinking you are more important. Prices transmit valuable information.
I think for difficult questions it is helpful to form both an inside view (what do I think) and an outside view (what does everyone else think). Pay is an indicator of the outside view. In an altruistic market how good an indicator it is depends on how much you trust a few big grantmakers to be making good decisions.
Ok, yes, but I think it’s a little more complicated than that, or we would all be working at Goldman or Google who also able to deploy altruistic narratives.
Yes you’re right (Goldman was bad/silly to bring up).
But it seems good to make the main point:
It’s possible and even ideal for salary to reflect impact.
However, people have used outside salaries to explain differential salaries. These justifications are extremely convincing (even if it is self serving write this).
(I don’t think you did this) but with the above justification, suggesting these norms are signals of impact risks leaning too hard on them. This might come off as slippery or wrong in certain situations.
You should be influenced by that! It is evidence for donors thinking that org is more important, and that org thinking you are more important. Prices transmit valuable information.
I think for difficult questions it is helpful to form both an inside view (what do I think) and an outside view (what does everyone else think). Pay is an indicator of the outside view. In an altruistic market how good an indicator it is depends on how much you trust a few big grantmakers to be making good decisions.
Ok, yes, but I think it’s a little more complicated than that, or we would all be working at Goldman or Google who also able to deploy altruistic narratives.
Yes, the scope is “Orgs whose donors you respect for their capital allocation.” Goldman doesn’t have donors at all.
Yes you’re right (Goldman was bad/silly to bring up).
But it seems good to make the main point:
It’s possible and even ideal for salary to reflect impact.
However, people have used outside salaries to explain differential salaries. These justifications are extremely convincing (even if it is self serving write this).
(I don’t think you did this) but with the above justification, suggesting these norms are signals of impact risks leaning too hard on them. This might come off as slippery or wrong in certain situations.