George Kirikos provides an interesting and detailed analysis of the information he gleaned from ICANN's most recent and previous IRS Form 990 disclosure.

For the year ending June 30, 200e top five employees at ICANN earned a total of $566,292 as well as $95,499 in benefits and deferred compensation.  For the year ending June 30, 2007, the top five ICANN employees earned a total of $985,568 as well as $172,377 in benefits and deferred compensation - a staggering 74% increase from the previous year.

As well, the top five employees had expense accounts totaling $26,727 for the financial year ending June 30, 2006, whereas the following year they had expense accounts totalling $130,465.

The President and CEO of ICANN is Paul Twomey.  In this same one year period, his compensation increased from of earnings of $459,244 and benefits of $19,200 to earnings of $722,079 and benefits of $219,345.

George Kirikos calls on ICANN to control their salary expenditures and justify such large increases.