In economic times that leave a lot to be desired (to say the least), it's nice to know that, though they're not shooting through the roof, the salaries of people in nonprofit leadership roles are going up. Granted the year's increase was only 2.55 percent, but up is up!
Want to know what you have to look forward to? The average annual salary for a "nonprofit leader" is $148, 972.
Recent controversy over National Night Out executive salary of $300,000 has -- rightfully -- drawn attention to discussion of how much is too much for nonprofit leaders to make, particularly when much of salaries can come from fundraising.
But with the predicted nonprofit leadership crisis that we've talked about here on its way, nonprofit employees are demanding compensation (closer to) on par with their for-profit counterparts. Often they're doing similar jobs that require similar education and skills.
What do you think? How much is too much for nonprofit execs? Should their lower salaries be a personal donation to their causes? Or should they be paid the same amount as a corporate exec doing more or less the same job?
2 comments:
I'm about to enter into a leadership - salary - role with a nonprofit (definitely not as high as "nonprofit leader" but higher than just a fundraiser. I'm being paid a small enough salary that it will be difficult to make ends meet. It makes me very angry that the higher ups make so much. The way nonprofits are organized, there are very few people at the top, so it makes sense they can take so much. But come on. They don't need six figure salaries.
Amen! As a super-recent AmeriCorps VISTA alum, I thought the same thing ALL the time. Sure, I signed up to volunteer for a year and am happy to have done so, but the "living stipend" was hardly enough to live on. It always made me think about the value (or lack thereof) the government and, I suppose in turn, the public, put on the nonprofit sector and the people who make it thrive.
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