There’s many aspects on compensation but this perspective stands out to me.
If we have a proper DAO treasury diversification plan we can offer the option to be compensated in stable coins.
An other long term option would be to use GTC as a utility token and create a new governance token.
The virtual token used for CowSwap seems to be an idea we could learn from.
Based on the twitter post above and the virtual token idea, we could compensate contributors with a standard ERC20 in conjunction with vGTC for which the amount could be weighted based on the contributions made or other params.
But this would lead to a centralized governance model, so if anyone that is not a contributor wants to get involved in governance, then they could buy the utility GTC token and redeem it for vGTC.
PS: We’re thinking of creating something along those lines for dCompass DAO.