MKA Executive Planners Blog

Periodically, activists and the press engage in challenging the value of executives and their compensation, especially for executives at not-for-profit organizations or non-stock for-profits such as mutual banks and insurance companies.

So, you are a top executive at a large healthcare, not for profit or other form of business organization.  Because of the headline grabbers, most people think you are a fat cat, overpaid and sitting on top of the world.  That may be true for the few on the front page, but at a closer look is, quite often it is the other way around. 

I don’t know or meet many executives working at human service, community service, healthcare or other not for profit organizations who work just 9:00 to 5:00 five days a week.  It’s more like 10-12 hour days, some nights, and don’t forget the weekends.  Yet, we see newspapers, television and more and more frequently government getting into the business of “gotcha” and complaining or trying to control compensation.