Good stuff here from @MartinSLewis on the charity wages issue. There may be situations where pay levels for senior positions in some charities are hard to justify but often charity roles are worse paid than jobs with equivalent responsibilities in both private & public sectors. https://twitter.com/MartinSLewis/status/1354760883726114816

'charity' as a corporate registration covers large numbers of organisations who do social good primarily by employing people to provide services (or do campaigning or carry out research) to a professional standard for wages.

Paying staff wages doesn't suck up or waste money that could otherwise be spent on doing what that charity exists to do - it is the biggest single cost involved in doing what the charity exists to do.

I respect people's right to believe ideologically that 'charity' should be a term referring purely to small scale activities carried out on a voluntary basis - but I don't get what this means for the professional charitable work that currently exists.

Who would benefit from cancer research charities firing all their staff - and having loads of additional money to spend on research carried out by people who were willing/able to do it voluntarily in their spare time?