Originally Posted by
RMGOdirector
Public record: RMGO paid me $41.4k last year, while NAGR paid me $74.4k (including healthcare benefits). This was for organizations who brought in $199,800 and $7.1 million (respectively). So I made $115,800 last year from both organizations, or 1.6% of the total budgets of both groups.
If I took the same ratios (top exec vs. total income of organization) as the Independence Institute's top execs (who are paid $142k or 7.2% of II’s total income and $101k, or 5.1% of total), my pay would be more than $350k-500k year, based on 2012 numbers. That's not accounting experience (I've been working in politics for 24 years).
And those are recent numbers. NAGR didn't pay me for the first two years. RMGO paid me a stipend for the early years. If I calculated the first 10 years work for RMGO, I would have been better off working at McDonalds.
Don't expect all of this to change how the naysayers feel, either. You'll find something wrong with anything I say.
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