来源：《每日电讯报》
原文刊登日期：2021年6月2日
Charity donors may have been surprised to discover that the people running many of the organisations to which they give money are so well rewarded. Some may have been angry. An analysis has disclosed that the bosses of around 270 charities are paid more than the Prime Minister.
慈善捐赠者可能会惊讶地发现，他们所捐赠的许多组织的经营者都得到了如此丰厚的回报。有些人可能会感到愤怒。一项分析显示，大约270个慈善机构的老板的薪水比首相还高。
This is, in truth, a somewhat artificial benchmark since successive occupants of No 10 have deliberately kept their pay low to curry favour with voters. But the current prime ministerial salary of £161,000 is still a substantial sum and many charity chiefs are being paid far in excess of that. In addition they employ more than 2,500 staff on salaries above £100,000.
事实上，这在某种程度上是一种人为的基准，因为连续几任唐宁街10号的主人都故意压低工资以讨好选民。但目前英国首相16.1万英镑的薪水仍然是一笔不小的数目，许多慈善机构的负责人的薪水远远超过了这个数字。此外，他们雇佣了2500多名年薪超过10万英镑的员工。
We do not contend that all of these pay packets are unjustified. The highest paid charity chief, Nick Moakes of the Wellcome Trust, might more fairly be compared to the CEO of a large multinational corporation given its investment portfolio of almost £30 billion, generating a 12 per cent return last year. Nor is it necessary to demand heavy-handed regulation. What is needed is transparency. As Helen Stephenson, chief executive of the Charity Commission, wrote, people giving their hard-earned cash want to know that a high proportion is spent on the cause they have chosen to support. They also want the charities to show in real terms the differences they are making.
我们并不认为所有这些薪酬都是不合理的。收入最高的慈善机构首席执行官是维康信托基金会的尼克•莫克斯。考虑到他管理的投资组合接近300亿英镑，去年的回报率为12%，把他比作一家大型跨国公司的首席执行官可能更公平。也没有必要要求严厉的监管。我们需要的是透明度。正如慈善委员会首席执行官海伦·斯蒂芬森所写的那样，人们捐出辛苦挣来的钱时，希望知道捐的钱很大一部分用在了自己支持的事业中。他们还希望慈善机构以实际的方式展示他们所做的善事。
Most of these organisations, perhaps all of them, may well be ticking the right boxes but it is often difficult for donors to find this out easily. When a chief executive’s salary makes up one third or more of a charity’s annual turnover, it is hard to imagine that is justifiable.
这些组织中的大多数，也许是全部，所做的事儿可能符合大家的期望，但捐赠者往往很难轻易发现这一点。当首席执行官的工资占慈善机构年营业额的三分之一或更多时，很难想象这是合理的。
There are 167,000 registered charities, most run by volunteers or staffed by people paid little more than expenses. The few with executives commanding very high salaries are usually, though not always, the biggest and most prominent fundraisers. But others are little more than campaign vehicles often pressing for more government funding for this or that cause.
英国有16.7万个注册的慈善机构，大多数是由志愿者运营，或者给员工开的工资也很低。少数高管薪酬非常高的基金通常(尽管并非总是)是规模最大、最著名的募资机构。但其他机构不过是慈善运动工具，经常要求政府为这个或那个事业提供更多资金。
The motivation behind charity work is supposed to be philanthropic. People who give to charity are entitled to know where their money is going and how their donation has made a difference. If a charity is going to pay an executive a substantial salary it should explain why and set out how this has contributed directly to the cause it represents.
慈善事业背后的动机应该是博爱。向慈善机构捐款的人有权知道他们的钱去了哪里，以及他们的捐款如何发挥了作用。如果一家慈善机构打算向一位高管支付一笔可观的薪水，它应该解释原因，并说明这对它所代表的事业有何直接贡献。