The NonProfit Times - February 1, 2009 - (Page 12) Continued from page 11 ment or similar director level, and executive directors were most competitive when it came to salary increases, according to Nurys Harrigan, president of Careers In Nonprofits. Everything else was basically maintained at 2007 levels, with no big increases among other positions like program or finance managers. Careers In Nonprofits is based in Chicago with offices in Washington, D.C., and works with nonprofits in those two cities. Organizations in the nation’s capital are more likely to be headquarters of large nonprofits and don’t seem to be as concerned about hiring as those in Chicago, where there appears to be a slowdown, Harrigan said. If nonprofits have to replace an employee -- particularly in fundraising, accounting or management -- they will, Harrigan said, but they won’t be adding staff. Instead, they might hire temps as opposed to bringing on another salary, at least until they “get a better picture of what they can or can’t do in terms of staffing, promotions and increases,”she said. Harrigan expects nonprofits to hold off until they see a “more assured second quarter, if things stay steady.” David Edell, president of DRG Executive Search Consultants in New York City, expects development directors to continue leading the way in terms of salary increases. “I’m sure that trend will continue into this year. If there’s going to be hiring that opens up in the course of this year it will be in development director positions,” he said. “In these kinds of downturn situations, whether as dramatic as this, the first positions that come back and the ones that people are most concerned about are ones that will help with revenue somehow,” Edell said. “Whether that’s a development director or additional staff to do grant writing or events, generally there’s a tendency to do more investing with fundraising as a first launch back, at least on the administrative side,” he said. Two recent searches by Alford Group Executive Search in Evanston, Ill., were growth searches in the fundraising area, said Heather Eddy, president and chief operating officer. One fiscally-stable organization was not planning to cut back but invest to have more people to go out and raise funds, she said. Ira Madin, vice president at Professionals for Nonprofits, echoed a greater emphasis on fundraising positions, and not cutting salaries but coming up with new and increased compensation packages.“As always with nonprofits, it leads with finance and fundraising,” he said,“either raising or spending money.” For the first time in recent memory, negative numbers were seen in the survey, asking to compare average staff pay increases in 2008 with increases in the 2009 budget. Though there were highs of 50 percent for 2008 and 17 percent anticipated for 2009, at the other end of the spectrum, some organizations had an average decrease in 2008, with a low of 6.7 percent,and in 2009,a low of 25 percent. For staff in general, the salary increase policy is based on general increases at 30 percent of the nonprofits while it’s based on merit increases at a quarter of the organizations. Almost 45 percent of respondents said they use a combination of both. During the past three years, non-exempt pay and exempt pay have increased at about the same rate, according to 61 percent of responses.About 9 percent each said non-exempt pay is increasing faster while another 9 percent said exempt pay is increasing faster. Nearly 20 percent said they don’t know. Of the portion that said non-exempt pay is increasing faster, the average increase was 6.52 percent, while for those that said exempt pay is rising faster, the average was 7.31 percent. Several organizations cited minimum wage adjustments are affecting the range while another said increases were “due to meeting competitive forces.” Some nonprofits have frozen salaries, or even taken the step of pay cuts, to avoid laying off staff. While the United Way of Greater Knoxville’s annual campaign raised $12.8 million last year, 96 percent of its goal and $25,000 more than the previous year, the execu- THE NONPROFIT TIMES National AVERAGES 2008/2009 Executive Director / CEO / President Chief Financial Officer Program Director Development Director Planned Giving Officer Major Gifts Officer Chief of Direct Marketing Director of Volunteers Webmaster Director of Human Resources Average Salary By Budget Size Overall Average $114,456/$113,225 $87,131/$86,673 $64,459/$66,335 $69,770/$72,586 $78,138/$76,915 $72,103/$71,472 $66,909/$66,760 $41,288/$42,617 $53,495/$54,663 $66,983/$68,462 <$500,000 $106,308/$105,545 $87,059/$89,919 $63,308/$67,068 $67,434/$71,281 $69,816/$63,792 $57,534/$57,798 $58,235/$58,877 $39,425/$41,442 $49,270/$52,521 $67,822/$72,102 $500K – $9 $111,011/$ $85,372/$8 $65,399/$6 $69,360/$7 $69,115/$6 $61,852/$5 $52,602/$5 $36,106/$3 $52,524/$5 $62,786/$6 Male and Female 2008 and 2009 Average CEO Salary Range $140,000 $120,000 2008 $100,000 $80,000 $60,000 $40,000 $20,000 0 136,791 132,318 95,874 98,068 2009 MALE CEO 2008 & 2009 FEMALE CEO 2008 & 2009 Average Female CEO $98,068 Average Male CEO $132,318 Regional AVERAGES 2008 Executive Director / CEO / President Chief Financial Officer Program Director Development Director Planned Giving Officer Major Gifts Officer Chief of Direct Marketing Director of Volunteers Webmaster Director of Human Resources New England $111,345 $80,628 $66,364 $72,963 $62,500 $71,645 $61,730 $42,350 $40,977 $63,827 Mid-Atlantic $111,675 $86,902 $63,838 $67,531 $73,442 $67,730 $69,068 $43,634 $53,116 $68,620 12 FEBRUARY 1, 2009 THE NONPROFIT TIMES www.nptimes.com http://www.nptimes.com
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