Little at Large: Think the fat lady has the top salary? Think again

By Mathew Little, Third Sector, 20 August 2008

CAF's annual Charity Trends survey looks at salaries for the top 500 fundraising charities, and last year the top whack of £315,000 went to someone at the Royal Opera House. But one less wealthy charity pays more - the International Institute of Strategic Studies, which has an income of about £7m.

Its accounts to September 2007 show one person was paid between £410,000 and £420,000 a year - up by £50,000 on the previous year. The director-general and chief executive is Dr John Chipman, who is said to lay on quite a decent lunch. But as the IISS is "the world's...