Dan RileyMar 13

@Thcoudreau @johncarlosbaez The arXiv budget is just internal operations, it doesn’t make any grants or fund outside projects, so the CEO salary is going to be a larger percentage than for a place like the Simons Foundation that serves as a funder of many outside project (including arXiv).

While $300k sounds like a lot, it looks to be towards the low side of CEO compensation for a tech-oriented non-profit foundation in NYC.

Show threadJohn Carlos BaezMar 13
@dan131riley @Thcoudreau - I didn't list the job qualifications, but you can read them, and it seems they're looking for the kind of prestigious scientist who would need a high salary to consider dropping their research for this sort of complex, time-consuming, attention-demanding administrative job. I'm curious to see who gets hired.
Show threadBradleyKShermanMar 13
@johncarlosbaez @dan131riley @Thcoudreau
I nominate John Carlos Baez.
Show threadJohn Carlos Baez
@bks @dan131riley @Thcoudreau - I would hate this job. I had some fun thinking about the salary I'd demand if someone wanted me to do it. It would be dumb of them to want that, because I'd probably do a bad job, but I might do it for $3,000,000/year.
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Show threadBradleyKShermanMar 14
@johncarlosbaez @dan131riley @Thcoudreau Would you take the equivalent in AI tokens?
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/12/ai-companies-try-to-pay-staff-in-ai-tokens-not-money/
AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money

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