No it isn’t.
The US tax authorities mandate that the top X employees’ salaries be disclosed in the form 990. 
That’s a tax thing not a transparency thing.
It’s none or your business or mine’s how much any employee of RIPE NCC earns.


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From: Roderick Beck <roderick.beck@networksourcing.net>
Date: Thursday, 6 November 2025 at 07:40
To: Gert Doering <gert@space.net>
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That's not a good argument. Disclosure of individual salaries is de facto the global standard for transparency. 

Regards, 

Roderick. 

On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote:
Hi,

On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 07:31:27PM +0100, Roderick Beck wrote:
> In the US all non-profits must disclose the individual salaries of senior
> management. RIPE does not even though it functions effectively as a
> nonprofit. I think more transparency is due in this respect given that RIPE
> is also a monopoly and has a budget of $40 million versus $33 million for
> ARIN and twice as many employees and contractors as ARIN.

We are not in the US...

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