Large salaries paid to charity staff could "bring the charitable world into disrepute", a regulator has warned.
Charity Commission chairman William Shawcross said organisations must ask if pay levels are "really appropriate".
The Daily Telegraph reported 30 staff at 14 leading UK foreign aid charities were paid £100,000 or more last year.
Charity leaders' organisation Acevo said the salaries for these "very demanding jobs" were not excessive compared to other sectors.
Mr Shawcross, who was appointed last year on a £50,000 annual salary to work two days a week, said the commission could not tell charities how much they should pay their executives, but urged them to be cautious.
"In these difficult times, when many charities are experiencing shortfalls, trustees should consider whether very high salaries are really appropriate, and fair to both the donors and the taxpayers who fund charities," he said.
"Disproportionate salaries risk bringing organisations and the wider charitable world into disrepute."
'Deeply unhelpful'According to the Telegraph, British Red Cross chief executive Sir Nick Young was paid £184,000 last year, two Save the Children executives received more than £160,000 each and Christian Aid chief executive Loretta Minghella was paid £126,072.
The number of staff being paid more than £100,000 at the 14 charities it focused on had risen from 19 since 2010, the newspaper added.
The charities detailed by the newspaper make up the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), which co-ordinates work after disasters overseas.
A spokesman told the Telegraph executive pay at its member organisations was "broadly in line" with other charities.
"To ensure the most effective use of appeal funds, a balance must be struck between minimising overheads and ensuring a robust management system is in place," he said.
"Good management of emergency responses in the UK allows our member agencies to deliver the planning, monitoring, accountability and transparency that this work requires and that the public rightly demands.
"The proportion of DEC appeal funds that can be spent by member agencies on the UK management of their disaster responses is capped at seven per cent."
Sir Stephen Bubb, chief executive of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (Acevo), told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Mr Shawcross's remarks were "deeply unhelpful" and "wrong".
He said the average salary for a charity chief executive was £58,000 and the higher salaries were "entirely justified".
"The big national and international charities are very demanding jobs and we need to attract the best talent to those jobs," he said.
"I know some of the people who are on these so-called excessive salaries who have taken pay cuts to run a charity."
Sir Stephen denied the high salaries could put off donors.
"This simply isn't an issue for donors. Donors are more concerned about the outcomes, the performance and the efficiency of these organisations," he added.
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