All who complain about Tom's wages, it sounds like jealousy. What does
the CEO of Halliburton or Enron make? I BET it's more than $188K. I
don't really see it as Tom getting rich off the backs of volunteers,
though. EAA has a lot of paid employees beside Tom. The reason they
need volunteers is because they don't have enough staff to effectively
do all the stuff needed for the annual convention. They have to help
hundreds of thousands of people in that one week. I also don't think
Tom just sits behind his desk all day looking at pretty pictures on the
wall. He does lobby for general aviation interests and these days, I'll
BET that's a full time job plus. I still miss Paul as head of EAA as I
find him MUCH more personable and genuinely interested in us little
guys, but Paul couldn't do it forever...

Scott


Drew Dalgleish wrote:
On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 21:58:54 -0500, Matt Whiting
wrote:


Kyle Boatright wrote:

"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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TaxSrv wrote:



" jls" wrote:



I doubt it. Do you know how much the officers are paid,
by chance?

I think they're ashamed to say.


Ashamed or not, they must by law place this info into the public
record. For the YE 2/28/03, EAA paid Tom Poberezny $188,080 plus a
pension contribution. Other officers were not compensated. The 5
highest paid executives were paid between $94K and $164K, none of whom
appear related to the Poberezny's. From the EAA Aviation Foundation
(museum, educational activities, and recipient of gifts/bequests), Tom
P. was paid $190,081 plus pension contr, with other officers similarly
unpaid but various other compensated executives.

Fred F.


That's one reason I dropped my EAA membership a few years ago. The
salaries are not at all in line.

Matt


In line with what? Depending on your industry/role/etc, there are plenty of
jobs out there that pay well over $100k. I'm not saying it is a good thing
for folks working at a non-profit to rake in the bucks, but it isn't like
these guys get stock options, etc. like lots of folks in the corporate world
do...

KB



Most folks in the corporate world (not all as we all know!) have fairly
well documented performance objectives that they must hit to make their
money. I'd like to see Tom's performance objectives.


Matt


Most folks in the cororate world aren't getting rich off the backs of
volunteers just out to better their passion for aviation