Because of the rapid devcoin growth, the administrators are doing much more than the ten hours of work per month that we're being paid for.
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There were no objections to giving administrators a pay raise and people suggested even more than doubling the shares. Therefore the administrator pay has been raised from 1 share for file administration and general administration to 2/5 of a share for file administration plus 1 to 4 shares for general administration with a total administrator pay limit of 7%.
Charities spend an average of 11% on administration:
http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/finance/news/content/15065/low_admin_costs_do_not_mean_high_charity_performance_finds_studyIf the total administrator pay is much less than that, existing administrators will want to quit and few will want to be new administrators. Because devcoin does not have to pay for bricks and mortar, and the administrators all work from home, we can get by with a lower total pay of 7%. The account script:
https://raw.github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity/master/account.pynow totals the pay of the administrators. It then checks if 3 bonus shares per administrator will still leave the total pay below 7%, if it does it adds an Administrator Bonus section:
https://raw.github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity/master/account_23.csvif not it keeps checking with a decreasing bonus shares on each check. It also writes the adminstrator pay in the summary:
https://raw.github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity/master/receiver_summary.txtFor example, in round 23, the general administrators will get 4 shares each, and the total administrator pay is 26 shares. Currently that is 6.3% of the total, as more shares are awarded or earned, the administrator pay percentage will decrease.
