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Senior executive salaries
The highest salary in MSF UK is our executive director, Vickie Hawkins
Vickie is eligible for an annual salary of £79,716 (as of April 2017). There are no additional bonuses or performance-related additional payments.
This amount excludes pension contributions by MSF, which total 10 percent of the gross salary.
Doesn’t MSF UK have a 3:1 ratio between highest and lowest salaries?
MSF UK has traditionally paid the most senior member of staff, usually the Executive Director, no more than three times the pay of the lowest paid UK-based staff member.
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VICKIE HAWKINS
However, in 2014 the MSF UK board decided to hold a long-overdue review of pay grades and benefits for all UK-based staff, and as part of that review the board reviewed its policy on setting the Executive Director’s pay.
The board decided in future to treat the 3:1 ratio as a guide rather than a rule in order to avoid a possible tension between either underpaying the Executive Director compared to equivalent roles, or being forced to pay more for junior roles than is appropriate.
For the record, the director’s current salary of £79,716 is 3.3 times the lowest current MSF UK salary of £24,462.
How did the board set the Executive Director’s salary?
In considering the Executive Director’s new salary, the Board observed that a gap had opened up between what MSF UK was previously paying and what other parts of the MSF movement and London-based NGOs were paying their Chief Executives.
In setting the Executive Director’s new salary, the Board sought to set the salary at a level that was broadly competitive yet still modest, in keeping with MSF’s focus on maximising the use of funds for frontline work.
