NY Times opinion columnist Frank Bruni:Platinum Pay in Ivory Towers

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@GMTplus7 …this reminds me of those news reports about the crazy salaries being pulled in by some non-profits and NGO’s.

“Not so nonprofit: 34 top charity execs earn $1 million or more”

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mo-non-profit-salaries-20130924-story.html

John Rushkay, executive vice president of United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, who received $494,000 in salary, $2.64 million in deferred payments and $17,000 in other payments;

Bob Mazzuca, chief scout executive of Boy Scouts of America, who received $391,986 in salary, a $43,707 bonus, $1.3 million in deferred payments and $66,891 in other payments;

Talk about bad “optics”…