[hiho hiho]

Another more detailed article is at:

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1135050924171710.xml&coll=7

[Wicket]

The full article is worth reading. Not only is he highly paid for Oregon, and the highest paid of all the Goodwill execs across the US, he's in the top 1/2 to 1% of all American wage earners with salary, current and deferred benefits.

Goodwill, of course, employs lots of low wage workers (except for Mr. Miller, of course). Miller has agreed to take a cut in pay so people won't be distracted from all the good they do - so he'll make 400,000 a year instead of 520,000. What a great discount we're getting - I'm so impressed.

The quote is from an audit that found his compensation package to be inappropriate, though Goodwill Portland defended it.

I know now why I prefer to give to the Salvation Army - what a scam.

[RTINSC]

"Goodwill Industries of the Columbia Willamette says law does not require executives to take a vow of poverty to work in the nonprofit sector.'

That's a pretty arrogant response to justify his position, IMO.

[Toskrin]

Boy, this story sure gets the knee-jerk reactions going. Wouldn't we all feel better if we paid some PBS telethon volunteer $18,000 to run Goodwill?

[Quick1]

They're revenue levels were 1/10th of what they are now when he took over in 1989. Sounds like he's worth every penny.

[Jigsaw John]

Michael Miller earned more than $830,000 in pay and benefits last year. This makes him the highest-paid executive at Oregon's social service

These people are making us a laughing stock. What an embarrassment.

[Lester Moore]

This guy sounds like William Aramony from the mid-eighties. I yahoo searched the net for billy but couldn't find info related to the 1986 fiasco. My memory tells me that billy was outed for getting over a million a year in compensation from united way and his director buddies were the ones getting 1/3 of a million a year. Here's a related URL

http://www.craigslist.org/nby/rnr/119222428.html

I'll never give another dime to UW or similar groups.

[Mad_as_heck]

Note to self: Don't give any money to Goodwill.

The outrageous thing about a limousine liberal isn't that he owns a limo and poor folk don't. The real crime is when the limo is paid for with taxes extorted out of working people in the first place.

Liberals! They rob us. They buy themselves a yacht. They then expect us to get down on our knees and lick their boots in gratitude for giving back a few crumbs from the loot.

Sorry Mr Miller: I'll take a pass on your brand of "charity." I'd rather work my hands to bone making an honest living and keep my dignity.

[Lester Moore]

This also reminds me of Elizabeth Dole getting paid $200,000 a year for her "charity" work at the Red Cross.

Give? Never again!

[manwiththehands]

I dated a nonprofit CEO for over a year. She told me that a lot of nonprofit CEO's make incredible money.

Although she made decent money, it wasn't anything like what others in other more "visible" organizations were making. She worked her butt off for every penny she could get for her agency. I think she was bitter about that sometimes. I don't blame her.

It's hard to convince me that any organization is "nonprofit" when the CEO makes close to 7 figures a year.

[Pietro]

s a frequenter of Goodwill stores across WPA I can tell you that what they put out for sale is the crap. The good stuff they keep back for themselves.

[VOA]

Goodwill Industries of the Columbia Willamette says law does not
require executives to take a vow of poverty to work in the nonprofit sector.

These guys must have Bill Clinton as their advisor.

[Revolting cat!]

There is a difference between charities that beg for money and spend much of what they get to beg for more, very often over 50%, and Goodwill, which accepts donations of goods which people and merchants would otherwise discard.

Furthermore, the reason Goodwill isn't cheap any more, is that your friendly neighbourhood eBay hustlers doscovered it as a good source of items for resale at a high profit. Even books,for fuggs sake! Well, Goodwill can do the same, why not. (There was an article in the local paper about this a few days ago.) As much as I despise the cash chasing U.S. charities, I'd direct my ire not at this exec,but at the eBay leeches, speculating on other people's generousness.

[Revolting cat!]

Here's a link to the Goodwill getting savvy article, I mentioned above.

As the article states, they train people otherwise unemployable, and you'll know it if you ever shop there (which I strongly recommend.) But they train them well, better it seems than K-MART trains their unemployable affirmative action employees. Service with a smile, every time I go there. Goodwill's good.

[DoughtyOne]

Vow of poverty? Must be a democrat...

[sit-rep]

I'm asked from time to time why I do not wish to donate...this is why...

[sit-rep]

I'm asked from time to time why I do not wish to donate...this is why...

[TheLion]

There is a lot of money in these charities. The gullible public just keeps giving and giving.

[Revolting cat!]

This will go so well with envy!

[SamAdams76]

A top executive at my company "retired" not too long ago to dedicate the rest of his career to a non-profit charity.

We all thought it was so noble at the time but he's probably making more money than all of us now!