Episode Details

Public service announcement

1. Applications are now open for our first ever round of the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program dedicated exclusively to animal welfare. Learn more about what's different this round here and apply here.
2. AIM itself is hungry for talent (nom nom!). We’re seeking applications from ambitious people for a wide range of roles to scale our impact. Are you generally talented? Express your interest here. Are you specifically talented? Express your interest here.

TL;DR

AIM has a reputation for extreme frugality on pay. It was earned but it's now out of date. Over the past few months we have:

• Refreshed our salary policy. Pay has gone from nominally to genuinely needs-based: the full-time London range is now £40,000–90,000 gross (adjusted for location), and the process is built around staff asking for what they genuinely need, with no negotiation and no interrogation of lifestyle choices. Since launch, the average salary has risen by roughly £10k. We'll revisit the range over time as we learn how broad a talent pool and range of life circumstances it covers.
• Overhauled program stipends. A flat default of £1,900 per month has become self-selected amounts based on individual circumstances. We expect most participants to land [...]

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Outline:

(00:17) Public service announcement

(00:55) TL;DR

(02:32) Context

(02:35) From frugal roots

(03:18) Upsides

(04:18) Downsides

(07:04) Our new salary policy

(07:08) The design process

(08:25) The policy

(10:48) Reflections and rollout

(12:07) Program stipends

(14:19) Founder salary advice

(16:16) Was pay your blocker before?

(16:57) Before you go: wanna found an animal charity?

The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
August 6th, 2026

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wBQcQWqd5QpcvrSJi/you-can-now-afford-to-work-at-aim-our-new-salary-policy

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.