--- In NewPacifica@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, siddharta2@... wrote: > > OK top management aka key employees?is OK to publicize in the annual report and tax forms, but you can't go down the line and publish everyone. > In? most corporations and Pacifica is one, compensation is completely confidential. > Even raises are confidential and are often handed out on a tiny piece of paper with no name on it. > Mangement is not key employees and therefore I was correct. > FAN > "...Even raises are confidential and are often handed out on a tiny piece of paper with no name on it..." Hey! If I found one of those tiny pieces of paper, could I put MY name on it? "...Mangement is not key employees and therefore I was correct." Well, you may be right: I know of one manager at WBAI who is not a key employee, inasmuch as we could do very well without him. Unfortunately, somebody considers him "key" enough to pay him a salary about 3 or 4 times the size of what regular staff gets; and helps supplement his meager income with station support for his personal fund-raising events. [P.S. in many jurisdictions, the salaries and dates of promotions and amounts of raises of ALL employees in some quasi-governmental organizations can be seen by the public and PUBLISHED in newspapers. I have worked for many employers in many occupations during 60 years or so of work, and it has always seemed to me that it was the BOSS who was most insistent on keeping salaries secret, as a way to keep WORKERS ignorant of how the bosses were handing out favors and why. I think Pacifica, of all organizations, should be the one LEAST devoted to this skulduggery and MOST supportive of transparency of who is getting paid how much for doing what. Especially (but not only) in the case of anonymous "consultants".] --Frank LeFever > -----Original Message----- > From: Terry Goodman <tgoodman4@...> > To: NewPacifica@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 8:08 am > Subject: [NewPacifica] Re: Re: On the Proposed WBAI Budget and Worker Layoffs > > > > > > > On Mon Aug 11, 2008. Fred Nguyen wrote: > > >Management salaries are not public information. > >In fact, publicizing them could lead to law suits > > The IRS Code and its interpretation changes each year, but the > compensation of the five highest paid employees of a 501(c)3 > tax-exempt organization other than officers, directors, and trustees > are publicly reported in its annual IRS Form 990 filing on a line > separate than the compensation paid to officers, directors, trustees, > and "key employees." Anything can lead to a lawsuit, but reporting > public information in unlikely to cause liability > > Pacifica's 2003 Form 990 filing lists Bernard White's compensation as > $67,359 and deferred compensation as $1,347. Pacifica's 2004 Form 990 > filing lists Bernard White's compensation as $67,359 and deferred > compensation as $0. > > Bernard White was not listed as among the five highest-paid Pacifica > employees in the Foundation's 2005 Form 990 filing, so his > compensation for the year ending on 9/30/05 was less than the $67,956 > paid to Phil Osegueda. Station Program Directors are generally not > interpreted to be "key employees" for purposes of the Form 990 > filings, but station General Managers generally are, so GM salaries > usually become public information even when the individuals are not > among the five highest paid employees of Pacifica. For 2005, the > non-deferred GM compensations were KPFA's Roy Campanella $61,850, > KPFK's Eva Georgia $71,085, KPFT's Duane Bradley $69,795, WBAI's Don > Rojas $50,557 (probably left early - his 2004 compensation was > $65,433), and WPFW's Ron Pinchback $69,785. > > --Terry Goodman >