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In a post a couple of weeks ago, I attempted to shed some light on the then-breaking “scandal” regarding the compensation of Roxanne Spillett, President of Boys & Girls Clubs of America. I was glad that my post, which was intended by as an analytic and non-judgmental look at the numbers behind the controversy, was received that way by most (including Dan Pallotta, an outspoken advocate for higher nonprofit pay levels). Hopefully, the conversation will take an even more informed turn once the additional information requested from BGCA by Senator Grassley et al. is received and becomes public. (The Senators requested that the additional information be provided by Monday, March 29th. To this point, there have been no reports with regard to the receipt or content of that information.)

While we wait, I wanted to respond to a very good question that I received regarding my original post. This involves an important clarification to the comparisons I provided, but also points to just how muddy the waters around nonprofit executive compensation analyses can be.
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For an update to this story, please see
The Fine Print: BGCA Executive Pay Update

The debate around the compensation paid to Roxanne Spillett, President of Boys and Girls Clubs of America, prompted by an inquiry on the part of Senator Charles Grassley and three other Republican Senators, is one which continues to grow, at least here in the blogosphere and twitterverse. While I made passing mention of the controversy in my post yesterday (Canada vs. USA…No Hockey Involved), I feel compelled to address the issue a bit less obliquely. However, if you’ve come here looking for impassioned moral or emotional arguments on either side of the controversy, you will be disappointed. That ground has been well-staked, on one end by Dan Pallotta, in his Harvard Business Review post “Senator Grassley Is Undermining the Humanitarian Sector”, and on the other by Rosetta Thurman, in her Chronicle of Philanthropy post “Nonprofit CEOs Who Want For-Profit Salaries Should Work At For-Profit Companies“. Each of their posts have received a fair number of comments on both sides of the issue.
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