This argument from the article is not correct:

Quote:Non-profit organizations in other sectors – for example, religious organizations, hospitals, and food banks – do not encounter a similar competitive dynamic.

Would have taken this AD 15 seconds of googling to find out that the CEOs of many "non-profit" hospitals receive salaries that are right up there with Nick Saban. (The term non-profit is just as bogus in healthcare as it is in college athletics.)

One example:

https://www.modernhealthcare.com/provide...care-costs

Quote:Top executives at six of the nine largest Chicago-area not-for-profit health systems pocketed substantial raises in 2017, recently released data shows. Their average pay hike was 37%, easily outpacing national trends.

Jim Skogsbergh of Advocate Aurora Health was the highest-paid local CEO for the fifth year in a row, taking home $11.7 million in 2017—up 42% from the year prior. He got more than twice as much as Dean Harrison of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, the second-highest-paid CEO, who collected $5.2 million—up 22% from 2016.