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Criticism has fallen on the Institute for its upward surge in executive pay, which doubled between 2002 and 2009.[78] to keep pace with salaries at other nonprofits of a similar size [88]. Meanwhile nearly half of part-time employees made less than $20,000 annually[79] and workers have been denied benefits such as health insurance by re-casting employees as interns or placing them on 29-hour work weeks, an hour short of full-time status.[80] A few disgruntled Members of the Esalen community have unfairly charged CEO Tricia McEntee with ineptitude[81] and subservience to its Director of Human Resources, Scott Stillinger, who is criticized for being out of touch with the Institute's values.[82][83][84] In fact, the goal of Esalen’s management is to make Esalen a more welcoming place for the 12,000 people who come each year to take workshops and who are part of Esalen’s worldwide community. McEntee has been with Esalen for eight years and Stillinger joined Esalen in 2009. On April 19, 2012, three key managers were laid off by Esalen without notice for "restructuring" purposes, including Eric Erickson, a key student of the late co-founder Dick Price who taught his techniques of gestalt practice and gestalt therapy at the Institute.[85]