Re: [WikiJournal-en] Monetary compensation to editor-in-chiefs and assistants?

I think this is a very reasonable proposal. I do think this should be discussed annually in case we need to adjust to be a more appropriate amount. This would be, say as workload and demands increase, or as budget overall increases, the stipend might be adjusted. Best, Jackie -- Jackie Koerner, Ph.D. Researcher & Visiting Scholar jackiekoerner.com On Aug 10, 2018, at 3:19 PM, Mikael Häggström < editor.in.chief(a)wikijmed.org&gt; wrote: Hello again, I have informed the board at WikiJMed that I would prefer to see someone with more time than me to be the editor-in-chief when my term ends by New Year, and the Assistant editor-in-chief has expressed a similar attitude to it. Yet, the only other candidate to the editor-in-chief position has also expressed reluctance to it. For the long term survival of the journals I think we need to add a monetary compensation to editor-in-chiefs, and practically also to add an incentive to apply to this position. I think an annual compensation of let's say $2000 for each editor-in-chief and $1000 for each assistant would be a humble start as part of the grant application for next year, especially considering that average salaries for editors-in-chief in the US are about $85.000 (link <https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/editor-in-chief-salary-SRCH_KO0,15.htm>) and $57.000 for assistants (link) <https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/assistant-to-the-editor-in-chief-salary-SRCH_KO0,32.htm>. Also, it is very humble comparing to the generally $100.000+ that many people make within Wikimedia Foundation (link <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salaries>), and the income of $91 million that Wikimedia Foundation received in 2017 (link) <https://annual.wikimedia.org/2017/financials.html>. Thus, we can definitely adjust this amount further in the future depending on the success of this grant application. Best regards, Mikael -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WJH board" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wjhboard+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to wjhboard(a)googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/wjhboard. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wjhboard/CACubOwiRUpiFW7qQ mnhoyF8PzvMFOLWSeDuEjUNF3X1HrvcaGQ%40mail.gmail.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wjhboard/CACubOwiRUpiFW7qQmnhoyF8PzvMFOLWSeDuEjUNF3X1HrvcaGQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WJM board" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wjmboard+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to wjmboard(a)googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/wjmboard. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms gid/wjmboard/1B0C88E5-4A35-4182-87FD-BF132B4AFF79%40gmail.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wjmboard/1B0C88E5-4A35-4182-87FD-BF132B4AFF79%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.