The NonProfit Times - February 1, 2009 - (Page 11) 2009 THE NONPROFIT TIMES SPECIAL SALARY & BENEFITS SURVEY REPORT BY MARK HRYWNAY volunteers was the next highest with a 3.21-percent rise expected, from $41,288 to $42,617. The good news for some director positions might be that their average salaries will increase at all, although few eclipsed 2 percent: • Director of human resources, +2.2 percent; • Webmaster, +2.18 percent; and, • Program director, +2.15 percent. If there is a silver lining to the data, it might be that while half of the 10 positions will see their average salaries decline, the drop isn’t very pronounced: • Chief of director marketing, -0.22 percent; • Chief financial officer, -0.52 percent; • Major gifts officer, -0.88 percent; • Executive director, -1.07 percent; and, • Planned giving officer, -1.56 percent. Other highlights of this year’s survey include: • The only six-figure salaries found in this year’s survey were for executive directors, regardless of region or budget size. • Development directors earned an average annual salary this year of at least $70,000 in each geographic region, led by the West at $76,691. • By budget size, the highest average salary was among nonprofits with $1 million to $9,999,999 in gross revenue, with $119,432 for executive directors. Each category expects the average to decline. The largest drop at 5.46 percent, is among groups with $10 million to A mid the stock market meltdown, credit crunch and rising unemployment, 2009 looks like it will be a better year to be an employee rather than a boss, at least according to the latest national NPT Salary & Benefits Survey. Average salaries for half of the 10 director positions surveyed anticipate a decline in 2009, and those that expect to increase kept pace with the rate of inflation last year (0.1 percent). Responses for general staff increases varied widely, with some reporting freezes or cuts, but the average pay hike worked out to 2.59 percent. That is down from last year’s 3.42 percent but not bad as charities try to keep layoffs at bay, especially considering that it’s a higher average increase than most of the positions surveyed. Not only are development directors expected to lead the way in 2009 when it comes to salary increases, it’s among just five positions in this year’s NPT survey that exceeds 2008’s inflation rate.The average salary for a development director is expected to be $72,586, up 4.03 percent from last year’s $69,770. Even when the responses were broken out by type of organization, size and geographic location, development directors for the most part still were leading the pack, with average increases more often on the positive side and sometimes ranging as much as 7 percent. Of the nine other positions in the survey, director of $24,999,999 in revenue. • Executive directors at associations will have the highest average salary ($121,093), but last year the highest averages were at foundations ($120,587) and civic/culture organizations ($120,436). Only environment organization directors failed to reach six figures in average annual salary ($97,757) this year. Some of the largest increases for 2009 are expected to be found at the smallest organizations. Development directors at nonprofits with revenue of $1 million to $9,999,999 (5.76 percent) and less than $500,000 (5.7 percent) reported the highest percentage increase in average salary. Other categories were less than 2 percent or declined only slightly. Likewise, at nonprofits with $500,000 to $999,999 in revenue the greatest percentage increase was reported to be for chief of direct marketing, at 11.59 percent. The pattern for development directors continued among geographic regions, with the lowest average increase of 0.87 percent in the North Central. All other regions eclipsed 3.25 percent, including 6.52 percent in the Southwest, 6.2 percent in the South and 5.29 percent in the Mid-Atlantic. Program directors also look like they’ll do well in 2009. In each geographic region, the average salary is expected to increase anywhere from almost 2 percent to 4 percent, with a high of 7.13 percent in the Southwest. Fundraising posts, such as vice president of developFundraisers, page 12 FEBRUARY 1, 2009 THE NONPROFIT TIMES www.nptimes.com 11 http://www.wealthengine.com http://www.wealthengine.com http://www.nptimes.com
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