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# Which Charity Exec gets Paid the Most?
- URL: https://goodoil.news/which-charity-exec-gets-paid-the-most/
- Published: 2024-02-11T00:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-10T18:47:39.000Z
- Author: Kevin
- Tags: Business, Economy, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:07

If you’d guessed John Tahimere you’d be [correct](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/not-for-profits-do-pay-new-zealands-first-charity-executive-pay-survey/SJXYXYWWCJB7HB3PFGGW4YZ2ZM?ref=goodoil.news).

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/1-1.png)

Pretty good pay considering annual revenue of $71m.

Next on the list is Professor Dawn Freshwater of the University of Auckland.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2.png)

Again pretty good pay. But notice that here that the annual revenue is $1.35 billion.

And in third place we have Professor Nic Smith of Vic University.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/3.png)

In case you can’t be bothered doing the maths, $510,679 is 0.7 per cent of $71 million. In comparison, $428,00 is just 0.009 per cent of $4.57 billion and $368,750 is 0.075 per cent of $492 million.

However to be fair:

> A somewhat surprising leader of this list – given it has one of the smallest staff levels, asset bases and annual revenues of entities surveyed – West Auckland Maori health and social services provider Waipareira nevertheless appears to have the highest paid executives in the charitable sector. This ranking was due to a sector-leading 77 per cent increase in senior manager pay in the year to June 30, 2023\. Chief executive John Tamihere told the *Herald* this pay increase was a “one-off” due to “restructuring”, but did not provide details.

Take from that what you will.

Of note though is the Sallies.

> For instance the Salvation Army anchors the bottom of charity executive pay in this sample by barely paying its key executives a living wage. Despite turning over $242m annually in donations and social service contracts, and employing nearly 2500 staff, each key manager there is recorded as being paid an average of $63,103 per year.

Of course I’m just presenting the facts here. I don’t know… maybe John’s pay packet is perfectly justifiable. I’ll leave it to you to decide.

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