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In what way does anna's archive work contrary to their mission?

It doesn't. It does their mission better than they ever could. They provide no value beyond the database that is being shared for free by anna's. There must be some salaries or some soft power being wielded somewhere by someone who doesn't want that to go away.

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 97 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)

$159,974,600 in "Salaries, wages, and related fringe benefits" for 2025.

Why would a nonprofit company that supplies databases of library metadata need to pay $160 million dollars to staff? You can run a midsized business for that. https://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/annual-report/2025/pdf/2025_OCLC_Audit_Report.pdf

2024 executive earnings: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/310734115

Key Employees and Officers Compensation

Prichard David (President & Ceo) $1,347,322

Rozek William (Cfo, Treasurer) $832,584

Murphy Bart (Chief Tech. & Info. Officer) $765,667

Leeches.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

They have 1,334 employees so a lot of it is fringe benefits... 30k for employer contribution of health/dental/vision/FSA&HSA program costs, $5k for sick leave payout costs, $5,250 training/tuition assistance budget. That's 40,250 per full time employee right there.

If you take the almost 9mil C suite makes and round down to 150 Million and divide by 1,319 employees (subtracting C suite) that's 113,700 per employee. Now if we withhold the benefits above, that's $73,450. But we're not done yet.

1% for workers comp, 6.2% for social security, 7% 401k match, 1.45% medicare, so a total of 15.65%. So we divide our 73,450 by 1.1565 and we are left with an average salary of $63,510.

They also have an additional retirement plan which almost sounds like a pension, but I couldn't find easy info on. If that's what it is, then that further reduces the avg salary by 10%. They also offer $2,500 adoption assistance and an EAP program that's not factored in.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 11 points 3 weeks ago

So, ceo has 20× the average in their company, wow

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