Sorry I missed there was a question here originally, thus the late reply.
I guess my thought is put your money where your mouth is. That is, if EA orgs really want more senior folks, they’re going to have to pay for it and not rely on people being mission aligned enough to take a pay cut.
I think realistically the way to get folks is to offer more cash than they can get in the private sector (where stock is often used to offset cash compensation). So for example offer 30% more cash than 95th percentile for the level you want to hire. For example, if someone wanted to hire me to work at an EA org they’d have to pay me at least $450k/year annual cash comp by this algorithm, and thinking about it being offered that much cash given the tradeoffs of working at a smaller org where I won’t get to exercise all my skills feels fair in that I’d be even on taking that option vs. continuing at my current job.
Sorry I missed there was a question here originally, thus the late reply.
I guess my thought is put your money where your mouth is. That is, if EA orgs really want more senior folks, they’re going to have to pay for it and not rely on people being mission aligned enough to take a pay cut.
I think realistically the way to get folks is to offer more cash than they can get in the private sector (where stock is often used to offset cash compensation). So for example offer 30% more cash than 95th percentile for the level you want to hire. For example, if someone wanted to hire me to work at an EA org they’d have to pay me at least $450k/year annual cash comp by this algorithm, and thinking about it being offered that much cash given the tradeoffs of working at a smaller org where I won’t get to exercise all my skills feels fair in that I’d be even on taking that option vs. continuing at my current job.