Non Profit Salary Review

Why should you bother to conduct a non profit salary review to compare your salary with other people in similar positions? While working for a non profit organization can be an extremely rewarding experience, you want to make sure that you are earning the money you should be earning for the work you do.

Just because you work for a non profit organization does not necessarily mean that you should expect to make far less than cohorts in similar positions with for-profit organizations. You're not a volunteer; you should be paid fairly for the work you do. A non profit salary review can help you discover if you are making the money you should be making.

If you are facing a decision of switching employers – whether you want to switch to another non profit or if it is your intention to seek out a job with a for-profit organization, a non profit salary review will assist you in figuring out what level of compensation you can expect. You don't want to expect too much or too little because either of these scenarios can potentially wind up badly.

Additionally, it is a good idea to periodically conduct a salary review just to find out what people in your same field are making.

You may not want to turn to your employer to find out information regarding the salaries of the people within your place of employment. Not only is it not considered proper to demand to know the wages of all the other workers around you, there may be privacy rules that forbid your boss or your employer's Human Resources department to reveal these figures. You can decide to ask all the other workers yourself about their rate of pay, but you might make some people uncomfortable and you might get some responses that are not accurate.

It's preferable to use an alternate source to conduct your salary review. If you belong to a professional membership organization then you may be able to get the information you're looking for through the organization. You can also use an Internet resource like Salary.com to check on the estimated salaries of other people working similar jobs in your profession for non profits. The information you will need in order to conduct a salary review on Salary.com and similar websites includes:

• Your job title
• The zip code of where your employer is located

You will be asked to select the most accurate title for your job from a list of titles provided by the website. You will then be presented with a bell curve to demonstrate where your salary lands when compared to other professionals in the same field in your geographic location.

Sometimes it isn't the person working at a non profit organization who wants to know the salary range for their position. Instead, potential donors want to know how much of their monetary donations will be put toward the salary of the workers as opposed to being put to work directly for the charitable cause.

The salary of directors and other top level executives in non profit organizations is sometimes publicized so donors know how much money goes toward these expenses. If these figures are not readily available, look at the published operating costs for the non profit organization.

Often the wages of the employees will be included in the total administrative and operating costs for the non profit organization, which are not difficult to find. Many non profit organizations list these figures somewhere on their website or in published literature. Figures such as these can often be found on websites like The American Institute of Philanthropy.

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