Top end charity executives are taking home on average half a million dollars a year.

The Herald business investigations reporter Matt Nippert has been crunching the numbers.

Waipareira's John Tamihere is up there - followed by the Vice Chancellors from Auckland and Victoria Universities.

Childfund chief executive, Josie Pagani, didn't make the list.

She told Heather du-Plessis Allan that a bit of a double standard applies.



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Top end charity executives are taking home on average half a million dollars a year.
The Herald business investigations reporter Matt Nippert has been crunching the numbers.
Waipareira's John Tamihere is up there - followed by the Vice Chancellors from Auckland and Victoria Universities.
Childfund chief executive, Josie Pagani, didn't make the list.
She told Heather du-Plessis Allan that a bit of a double standard applies.
 
LISTEN ABOVE

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