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Job Compensation

Are you looking for a new position with a nonprofit and wondering what it might pay? Are you curious about how your own salary stacks up with others in your area? The MSU Main Library has national and regional salary surveys on nonprofit organizations, including information about wages at foundations and other types of nonprofit organizations. Books are listed first and then links are provided to a few internet sites with similar information.

The books mentioned on this page are available for public use in the Michigan State University Libraries. If you are unable to visit our library, consider visiting a Foundation Center Cooperating Collection in your home state or a local public library in your home town. If the books are not available there, ask about interlibrary loan or visit a local bookstore to find out whether they can be purchased.

Books Available

COMPENSATION IN NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS: ALL TYPES OF NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. Crete, Il. : Abbott, Langer & Associates, 2000. 13th edition, 2 vols. Main Library Reference (1 East) Funding Center HD4965.5.U6 C657 2000 v.1-2
Based on a survey of more than 1500 nonprofit organizations.
[Nonprofit organizations -- Employees -- Salaries, etc. -- United States -- Statistics]

FRINGE BENEFITS AND WORKING CONDITIONS IN NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. Crete, Il. : Abbott, Langer, and Associates. Main Library Reference (1 East) Funding Center HD4928.N62 U63378
6th edition (2004) available in Funding Center; 4th edition (1999) available in Main Library Stacks
[Nonprofit organizations -- United States -- employees]
[Nonprofit organizations -- United States -- statistics]

GRANTMAKERS SALARY AND BENEFITS REPORT. Washington, D.C. : Council on Foundations. Main Library Reference (1 East) Funding Center HV41.5 .G8
1998, 2003, and 2004 editions available.
[Fund raisers (Persons) -- Salaries, etc. -- United States -- Periodicals]

MICHIGAN NONPROFIT COMPENSATION AND BENEFIT SURVEY 2006. Lansing, MI : Michigan Nonprofit Association, May 2006. Main Library Reference (1 East) Funding Center HD4966.N652 U665 2006
Do your wages and benefits attract and keep the best employees? This new survey will provide the information you need to stay competitive. Data from 67 Michigan counties and over 700 nonprofit organizations provides an analysis of thousands of full-time, part-time and contract employee positions. Salary and benefit information (insurance, holiday, sick days, retirement programs, etc.) for more than 60 positions including: Executive Director, Administrative Assistant, HR Director, Economic Development Officer, Grant Writer, MSW Caseworker, Volunteer Coordinator, and many more positions. 89 pages.
[Nonprofit organizations -- Employees -- Salaries, etc. -- Michigan -- Statistics]

NONPROFIT COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS PRACTICES. Carol L. Barbeito and Jack P. Bowman (Applied Research and Development Institute International, Inc.). New York : Wiley, c1998. 206pp. Gast Business Library HD4965.3.N652 U63 1998
[Chief executive officers -- Salaries, etc. -- United States]
[Executives -- Salaries, etc. -- United States]
[Nonprofit organizations -- Employees -- Salaries, etc. -- United States]
[Employee fringe benefits -- United States]

Web Sites

Association of Fundraising Professionals
Compensation and Benefits Survey
http://philanthropy.com/jobs/2002/01/24/20020124-21257.htm
News article from the Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 14, 2002. Online access restricted to subscribers. MSU users can access article at the Main Library Reference desk.
(Last checked 02/19/07)

Council on Foundations
2004 Grantmakers Salary and Benefits Report
Executive Summary
http://www.cof.org/files/Documents/Research/2004/
2004_Corp_Grant_Salary_and_Benefits_Report_-_Executive_Summary.pdf
The 2004 Grantmakers Salary and Benefits Report is based on responses from 808 foundations and giving programs, which reported salaries for a total of 6,480 full-time employees. The executive summary includes information such as: The median salary for a CEO/CGO was reported as $110,000 for 2004; the median salary for a program officer was $67,057.
(Last checked 02/19/07)

Council on Foundations
2005 Grantmakers Salary and Benefits Report
Executive Summary
http://www.cof.org/files/Documents/Research/2005%20Salary/
2005_Salary_and_Benefits_Report_Executive_Summary.pdf
(Last checked 02/19/07)

Council on Foundations
2006 Grantmakers Salary and Benefits Report
Executive Summary
http://www.cof.org/Learn/content.cfm?itemnumber=9124&navItemNumber=1983
(Last checked 02/19/07)

Foundation Salaries Rose 4%; CEO Median Pay Hits $115,000
http://philanthropy.com/premium/articles/v18/i08/08002701.htm
"2005 Grantmakers Salary and Benefits Report" highlights:

Chief executive officers of foundations received a median salary of $115,000 last year, meaning half made more and half made less. That was a 4.5-percent increase from 2004, when the median salary was $110,000.

The median salary for program directors, however, increased by less than 1 percent, from $94,889 in 2004 to $95,594 last year.

Salaries varied significantly depending on foundation size, type (community, corporate, family, independent, or public), and geographic region. The median chief-executive salary at independent foundations, for example, was $187,376, while the median pay for the same position at community foundations was $88,446.

The median salary for foundation chief executive officers was highest in the Northeast ($139,863) and lowest in the Midwest ($95,200).

Executive perquisites. Forty-five percent of community, private, and public foundations provided special benefits to their chief executives, the survey found. (The report excluded corporate foundations when compiling these figures because they tend to follow the policies of their sponsoring companies.) A car phone or cellular phone was the most popular added benefit, followed by a car, and club membership. More than a third of the foundations that provided special benefits to the CEO's included one or more of those perks.

Nearly a quarter of private, community, and public foundations also provided their chief executives with deferred compensation in 2004, which ranged from $885 to $750,000, with a median of $12,000. Twenty percent of those foundations also reported awarding bonuses to their CEO's in 2004, which ranged from $100 to $110,000, with a median of $5,495.

News article by Brennen Jensen, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Feb. 6, 2006. MSU users can access article at the Main Library Reference desk.
(Last checked 02/19/07)

JobStar Central Nonprofit Salary Resources
http://jobstar.org/tools/salary/sal-prof.cfm#NonProfit
(Last checked 02/19/07)

Nonprofit Sector Employee Salaries and Compensation
http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/faqs/html/emp_comp.html
A collection of resources by the Foundation Center.
(Last checked 02/19/07)

Nonprofit Times Salary Survey
2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004
Note: Nonprofit Times is available online for MSU faculty and students. The salary survey usually appeares in the February 1 issue of each year.
(Last checked 02/19/07)

Pay Gap Narrows for Male and Female Nonprofit Executives, Study Finds
http://philanthropy.com/premium/articles/v19/i01/01002801.htm
Female executives of nonprofit organizations earned less than their male counterparts last year, a new study has found, but the gap in pay has closed significantly in the past five years. The median compensation of male chief executives in 2005 was 25.6-percent higher than the pay for females in similar positions, according to the study by GuideStar, an organization that collects the information nonprofit groups report to the Internal Revenue Service about their finances and activities. However, that difference is far less than it was in 2000, when the pay gap between male and female executives was 45.7 percent. Part of the reason for the difference in pay is that female chief executives are more likely to be found at smaller organizations. Women accounted for 57 percent of the top executives at nonprofit groups with budgets of $1-million or less, but just 36 percent of larger organizations. News article by Harvy Lipman, Chronicle of Philanthropy, October 12, 2006. Online access restricted to subscribers. MSU users can access article at the Main Library Reference desk.
(Last checked 02/19/07)

Salaries and Benefits at Foundations
http://philanthropy.com/premium/articles/v18/i08/08002801.htm
Chronicle of Philanthropy, February 9, 2006. Online access restricted to subscribers. MSU users can access article at the Main Library Reference desk.
(Last checked 02/19/07)

Women Nonprofit CEOs Earn Less than Male CEOs
A Michigan Nonprofit Association survey reported that the salaries of male nonprofit CEOs are, on average, $21,270 higher than the salaries of women. The men’s average was $74,936 and the women’s $53,666. The survey also reported that women are more likely to lead smaller organizations, while men are more likely to lead larger nonprofits. Women CEOs lead at least 60 percent of the organizations with 2002 operating budgets under $500,000. For nonprofits with budgets above $5 million, men are the CEOs of at least 75 percent. MichiganNonprofit.com, Oct. 17, 2002.

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