Goodwill husband-wife team earns $800,000-Store Workers $19.58 an hour (Salary/benefits/training)

Goodwill husband-wife team earns nearly $800,000
Published: February 9, 2013 Updated 11 hours ago



By Josh Shaffer — jshaffer@newsobserver.com

DURHAM — As president of the Goodwill Community Foundation, Dennis McLain directs a chain of 36 stores stretching from Durham to Jacksonville, selling used sport coats and secondhand dresses to some of North Carolina’s poorest citizens.

He states proudly in promotional material that workers in those stores earn an average $19.58 an hour in combined salary and benefits, and that Goodwill provides free job training to millions worldwide.

But McLain receives an uncommonly large portion of the nonprofit’s generosity, earning more than $430,000 a year in pay and other benefits, including membership at Raleigh’s exclusive Capital City Club. His wife, Linda, Goodwill’s executive vice president, brings home $365,000, according to nonprofit disclosure forms filed with the Internal Revenue Service for 2011.

Their compensation rose nearly 11 percent in that year, and 20 percent since 2008.

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