Certainly, there are nonprofits that take advantage of people, but before assuming any nonprofit that pays well is one of them, I hope people take time to think critically about why nonprofit salaries are higher than they might expect and to compare them to similar positions at for profit companies

The anger should be directed at for profit CEOs who make hundreds of millions of dollars while their workers are on food stamps and at the government which refuses to tax them. They’re the reason the inequality Feeding America tried to fight exists in the first place

I think a lot of the outrage on this post stems from the sort of jarring juxtaposition of a CEO of a nonprofit that fights hunger making 7 figures, and I get it. But she is likely taking a much lower salary to work there than she would in a for profit business

Compared to that, the CEO’s salary is pennies. Nonprofits can only be successful if they are run by competent people and that requires paying a competitive salary. Not a for profit level salary but one that attracts and keeps good people and makes them feel sufficiently valued.

So many people in the replies to this person’s post are livid at the idea of this CEO making $1 million, and I get it, that’s a lot of money. But nonprofits shouldn’t be a game of “who will run this for the least amount.” A bit of research indicates that Feeding America is a multi-Billion dollar org