QUOTE(Neil @ Fri 31st October 2008, 10:13am)
That $309k for "office of the executive director" covers both the Executive Director (Gardner) and Deputy Director's (Erik Moller) salaries, fundraising and travel expenses, and consultancy and contracting costs. It's not just "Sue Gardner's salary".
And the $341 for Legal includes Mike Godwin's salary, yes, but also "external counsel and consultant fees, filing fees, etc."
Still seems like a lot, though. And most annual reports for charities I've read break those kind of things down, rather than lump them together in chunks.
The last sentence is precisely my point. If other salaries, traveling expenses, consultant fees and everything else was a meaningful amount, they would certainly split it to avoid the possible misunderstanding that Sue takes all $309K for herself.
Since they didn't split it up, we're left to conclude that provoding a more detailed expenses summary would make them (or just her?) look bad.
It's always possible that whoever made the reports wasn't very competent, which wouldn't be unusual for the WMF.