Kaj_Sotala comments on SIAI vs. FHI achievements, 2008-2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 25 September 2011 07:32:12PM 4 points [-]

Page 4 of the 2008-2009 annual report says that research associates are unsalaried.

Comment author: wallowinmaya 25 September 2011 08:06:53PM *  2 points [-]

Thanks!

But then how did FHI spend £460,000 in 2008-2009 ? ( See this comment ) The salary for James Martin research fellows and is around £45,000, and for Director Nick Bostrom around £50,000 according to the page 77 of this document.. And for James Martin project officers it's around £20,000. Thus the overall salary budget is approximately £180,000. So there remain around £280,000.

Is it possible that FHI just doesn't spend it's whole budget? E.g. in 2006- 2007 their budget was £263,113 but their actual expenditure was only £135,815! And who gets the surplus? Can FHI effectively use that much more money?

Comment author: CarlShulman 25 September 2011 09:58:32PM *  10 points [-]

FHI must pay for:

  • "taxes" to the university and the department for use of facilities, perhaps including high rent for the office space in the philosophy building (they also get a cut of many grants)
  • substantial costs for conferences and workshops
  • travel costs for staff and perhaps visitors
  • non-salary compensation (pension contributions, perhaps employer payroll taxes, etc for staff
Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 25 September 2011 08:20:42PM *  1 point [-]

Odd.

FHI not spending all its budjet seems unlikely, since the comments in the subthread steven0461 linked are saying that FHI would hire more staff if only it had the money.

Comment author: wallowinmaya 25 September 2011 08:25:35PM 1 point [-]

It's really odd, maybe I'm misreading the budget tables.

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