I don’t know why I am posting this outside of the fact I love seeing what people make for their jobs. There are a surprising number of non profit heads and directors who make way north of $250,000, and now it is interesting to see what Nina Link of Magazine Publishers of America makes for a living, via Gawker:
Nina Link, the head of the Magazine Publishers of America, makes $740,000 a year. Even at the very good magazine freelance rate of $2/ word, you’d have to write like 100 long features per year to make that much cash. So that means that Nina Link’s per word rate is like…. $740,000, because, I forgot, she is not a magazine writer, she’s a lobbyist.
My question is: what is too much money? Lawyers, rock stars, lobbyists, CEOs, founders, entrepreneurs, sports stars, and actors really risk a lot and their success and failure can be meteoric but also fickle and the end can very often come abruptly.
Law partners have to go through a lot of hell to get where they are and lobbyists tend to spend much of their entire youth sucking up to get to where they make an easy three-quarter million per annum.
So, what’s too much?
The way I see it, these people eat what they kill and they surely and always make much more than $740,000 for their parent companies, agents, investors, etc.
