Couple Earns $1.5 Million a Year Running Publicly-Supported Nonprofit
The Los Angeles Times upped the ante this week following our recent report on high-paid nonprofit health and human service executives. The Times' Alan Zarembo found a publicly-funded, Torrance-based job training charity for the developmentally disabled, Social Vocational Services, whose executive director collects an annual salary of $872,311 while his wife, the associate executive director, pulls down another $606,862. For more on the couple's perks and the charity's unusual history, check out the article.
If the Dawsons and others were providing the job opportunities our consumers need, they might be worth large salaries. But there needs to be legislation preventing these Directors from "earning" that kind of money from the State while our consumers are walking around parks and malls and bringing home paychecks of $6 every two weeks.