“many orgs won’t pay such high salaries (and won’t “add $100k to the advertised salary”″
Why not create more organizations? (And coordinate between organizations). Charity A attracts certain donors and workers, and Charity B attracts different donors and workers, and the costs of coordinating and additional upkeep are probably at most fifty percent of total cost?
I didn’t understand how making more organizations is related to what you quoted, could you say it in other words?
To reply to “Why not create more organizations?”—I think it is a consensus that EA wants to create more organizations. I hope some very senior people (who this post is trying to target) could be the people who’d found those, maybe. I know of a founder who read this post, is going to talk to [a senior EA] about it, and perhaps, who knows, will decide to open a new org? I don’t know
I think that if existing organizations have some reason to not pay higher salaries, then a new organization can probably be different. For example, if current organizations have donors and workers who prefer lower salaries (a costly signal of commitment from workers), a new organization could try to use workers who have successfully signalled commitment in other ways and donors who are okay with paying those workers market rate.
Maybe the existing orgs have good reasons for not paying high salaries, I’d talk to the existing org you want to replace before opening a new one, probably
Either the high-earners or the people who want to hire them have management talent, probably at least some of them could be on an org leadership team. Depending on whether the reasons for not paying high salaries are universal or apply to just particular orgs, splintering could make sense.
For particular organizations, maybe the reasons are good, but we probably shouldn’t just look at specific orgs. Funding constrained orgs include definitely GiveDirectly and probably Malaria Consortium’s non-chemoprevention budget. Therefore, for a person who can earn $1mil but would be paid $250k at a talent-constrained charity, then if I’ve done the math right (doubtful), their marginal value over the unhired alternative candidate needs to be 3x more impact than the high-earner’s donations to global health. So then it comes down to how much more impact can be had at talent-constrained charities and how bad are the alternative candidates, which are hard to debate in generalities and is where I’m probably wrong.
One could calculate
A=”what value over replacement do I have in my earn-to-give job (could be negative) ”
plus B=”what is the value of my donated money to the best funding-constrained org”
minus C=”what is the value of my talent (over replacement) to the talent-constrained org)
(and if the result is negative then direct work makes sense)
“many orgs won’t pay such high salaries (and won’t “add $100k to the advertised salary”″
Why not create more organizations? (And coordinate between organizations). Charity A attracts certain donors and workers, and Charity B attracts different donors and workers, and the costs of coordinating and additional upkeep are probably at most fifty percent of total cost?
I didn’t understand how making more organizations is related to what you quoted, could you say it in other words?
To reply to “Why not create more organizations?”—I think it is a consensus that EA wants to create more organizations. I hope some very senior people (who this post is trying to target) could be the people who’d found those, maybe. I know of a founder who read this post, is going to talk to [a senior EA] about it, and perhaps, who knows, will decide to open a new org? I don’t know
I think that if existing organizations have some reason to not pay higher salaries, then a new organization can probably be different. For example, if current organizations have donors and workers who prefer lower salaries (a costly signal of commitment from workers), a new organization could try to use workers who have successfully signalled commitment in other ways and donors who are okay with paying those workers market rate.
Ah,
Where will you find the people to run these orgs?
Maybe the existing orgs have good reasons for not paying high salaries, I’d talk to the existing org you want to replace before opening a new one, probably
Either the high-earners or the people who want to hire them have management talent, probably at least some of them could be on an org leadership team. Depending on whether the reasons for not paying high salaries are universal or apply to just particular orgs, splintering could make sense.
For particular organizations, maybe the reasons are good, but we probably shouldn’t just look at specific orgs. Funding constrained orgs include definitely GiveDirectly and probably Malaria Consortium’s non-chemoprevention budget. Therefore, for a person who can earn $1mil but would be paid $250k at a talent-constrained charity, then if I’ve done the math right (doubtful), their marginal value over the unhired alternative candidate needs to be 3x more impact than the high-earner’s donations to global health. So then it comes down to how much more impact can be had at talent-constrained charities and how bad are the alternative candidates, which are hard to debate in generalities and is where I’m probably wrong.
One could calculate
A=”what value over replacement do I have in my earn-to-give job (could be negative) ”
plus B=”what is the value of my donated money to the best funding-constrained org”
minus C=”what is the value of my talent (over replacement) to the talent-constrained org)
(and if the result is negative then direct work makes sense)