{"id":161341,"date":"2010-01-12T14:05:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T19:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010746725_executivecompensation.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-01-12T14:05:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T19:05:05","slug":"executive-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/161341","title":{"rendered":"Executive compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a practice to abhor<\/strong><\/p>\n

The parallel of outlandish pay compensation from the sports industry and application to higher education seems spot on [\u201cWhat price for Ichiro of higher ed?\u201d NWFriday, Jan. 8].<\/p>\n

Compensation is not linear. Pay the executive twice as much and is he now working twice as hard? Is he twice as smart? Is UW President Mark Emmert doing a twofold better job at UW than he did at my alma mater, Miami University? Well then, let\u2019s give them a mansion to live in, have staff to clean and prepare food, provide transportation, pay them a million dollars and a healthy bonus too, why don\u2019t you? When is reasonable unreasonable? This is not a practice to applaud but to abhor.<\/p>\n

Giving a board of directors compensation oversight is an incestuous fox guarding the licentious fowl \u2014 they reward their own, behind the safety of closed doors. Where\u2019s the leadership to say enough is enough? It surely is not coming from management \u2014 whether it\u2019s higher education, sports or big business.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t seem to afford it even if we could find it somewhere,\u201d they say. And so the cycle continues \u2014 our generosity knows no bounds when it\u2019s \u201cother people\u2019s money.\u201d Did some nabob suggest this is really our money?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Marcus Smith, Woodinville<\/em><\/p>\n

Executives need to reflect<\/strong><\/p>\n

I completely agree with Nicole Brodeur\u2019s opinions in regard to the salary of Mark Emmert.<\/p>\n

Of course he does not need the kind of compensation he receives to live comfortably. But this is now true of so many in this country today: People who blithely go along with it all and seem to have no moments of introspection whatsoever.<\/p>\n

I think the power that comes with these positions just takes over and all common sense, modesty and humility go right out the window \u2014 yes, look at those bankers!<\/p>\n

There is also no doubt in my mind that there may be other truly academic \u201csuperstars\u201d who could fill this position and they might do so for less compensation. It wouldn\u2019t hurt to explore this idea, would it?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Kathleen Collins, Bellevue<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a practice to abhor The parallel of outlandish pay compensation from the sports industry and application to higher education seems spot on [\u201cWhat price for Ichiro of higher ed?\u201d NWFriday, Jan. 8]. Compensation is not linear. Pay the executive twice as much and is he now working twice as hard? Is he twice as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}