Question: Is it legal or ethical for company executives to pay staff way less (~60% less) than the amount they budgeted for and received from a grant? So say they stated that they needed a project manager to run a service, estimated $80k salary for this project manager position but ended up hiring a part-time project manager and are paying this person $30k a year. I feel it’s wrong. What are the legalities of this situation?

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It's not illegal. As long as companies are paying at least minimum wage then it's up to them to pay what they want. It looks like they budgeted for a full time role and then hired for a part time role so that could be why it's significantly less

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Yes, exactly. I think it’s unfair to both the funder and the part time employee.

I don't know about the legality of the situation, but from a moral standpoint, it definitely feels wrong to me as well. Where is the rest of that money going??

Same, it rubs me the wrong way. It feels unethical. It’s not clear where the rest of the money is going.

It's legal, but not ethical. That's really unfair. Is there anyway you can tip off the new hire that they are being underpaid?

I could. I wanted to get other opinions on here to make sure I wasn’t overthinking it. So far, I’m getting legal but unethical.

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