# Stipends for pDAO Roles

**URL:** <https://dao.rocketpool.net/t/stipends-for-pdao-roles/1134>\
**Category:** Governance\
**Created:** [9 October 2022 14:20 UTC](https://dao.rocketpool.net/t/stipends-for-pdao-roles/1134 "2022-10-09T14:20:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Valdorff](https://dao.rocketpool.net/user_avatar/dao.rocketpool.net/valdorff/32/319_2.png) [@Valdorff](https://dao.rocketpool.net/u/Valdorff)\
**Post date:** [12 October 2022 04:31 UTC](https://dao.rocketpool.net/t/stipends-for-pdao-roles/1134/6 "2022-10-12T04:31:16Z")

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So… I’m gonna mostly opine against stipends.

### Right now everyone’s a volunteer, and that’s nice

If anyone puts in 20 minutes, I’m appreciative.  
If they put in an hour, I’m more appreciative.  
If they put in ten hours, I’m overjoyed.

### Right now, we’re community members

We have a community task we’ve taken on for the community, but at heart we’re no different.  
We’re certainly not employed by the pDAO or the team.

### My concerns

I’m concerned that I’ll have thoughts like:

- Am I supposed to be getting paid for my work? What’s my hourly rate for contract work? How many hours am I putting into RP each month?
  - Spoiler - you aren’t going to pay me enough. I routinely have days that would blow through Wander’s proposed per-period payment, let alone 4 weeks.

- Why is insert-name-here getting paid (the same/almost as much/whatever) when they do (whatever I perceive them to do) and I do (whatever I perceive myself to do)?? That doesn’t seem fair.
- To Wander’s point (“Pay peanuts, get monkeys”), we can only afford peanuts. Thus, I think we’re better off _not_ structuring this as payment.

### My suggestion

I think we should be looking to recognize people and thank them, rather than pay them.

I would suggest:

- Thank yous and celebration primarily
- Honorariums after the fact to emphasize and add weight to some thank yous
- An easy way for folks to gracefully turn down personal payment and instead send it to a non-profit’s address or to the pDAO treasury

Stream of consciousness (would need an rpip if we wanted something like this)

- Maybe we could have a small pool (200 RPL) for thank yous per period managed by the GMC
- Have an appreciation thread in forum for folks to thank people
- GMC picks people from the thread to receive 5-25 RPL; no specific rubric, but valuing (A) outlier contributions to recognize them, and (B) new contributors to encourage them
- I wonder if we could do a poap for honorees or something (once a quarter or year)

Funding is a tough question. My instinct is to take it from the GMC budget (effectively adding a 4th category to Grants, Bounties, and Retroactive). I worry that it’s very easy to take from the reserve, but the reserve is important. Among other possible uses, it’s what will give us a credible path to not being wholly dependent on the current dev team. That war chest will take too long to build up even with the current budget, and I want to protect that flow aggressively.

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