Bay Area Professional Fundraisers Fare Well, CompAnalysis Survey Shows.OAKLAND, Calif. -- From telephone solicitors to writers of formal grant applications to managers of fundraising
"An apparent shortage of Bay Area fundraising professionals has increased market demand for these positions," said Shari Dunn, Managing Principal of CompAnalysis, an Oakland-based compensation consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a . "So we developed local pay data as a service to San Francisco Bay Area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay nonprofits. In all, 105 organizations participated. To me, their participation demonstrates this industry's acknowledgment acknowledgment, in law, formal declaration or admission by a person who executed an instrument (e.g., a will or a deed) that the instrument is his. The acknowledgment is made before a court, a notary public, or any other authorized person. of the need for information to pay competitively." The survey report, which was distributed free of charge to participants includes compensation and benefits data by responsibility level and job function, and reports pay information by size and type of organization within the nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. sector. Some notable survey results: * Generally, major gifts and planned giving Planned Giving is an area of fundraising that refers to several specific gift types that can be funded with cash or property. These gift vehicles are based on United States tax law. job functions receive the highest salaries, averaging $88,802 and $107,141 respectively for the supervisor responsibility level. * Average base pay for an entry-level employee working for a philanthropy-related nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. is $39,500, and this nonprofit type pays more than others. * Silicon Valley is the highest-paying geographical region within the Bay Area, among all responsibility levels and job functions, and the Central Coast is the lowest-paying, in general. * On average, heads of development are paid the most in Silicon Valley (avg. $119,359), senior professionals most in the North Bay (avg. $79,600), and fundraising professionals most in the outer East Bay (avg. $57,961). * On average, professional-level employees working for nonprofits with annual fundraising revenues of $2-5 million earn $52,570. * 9% of fundraising employees receive incentive pay (performance-related cash incentives), and 4% receive bonus pay (extra compensation at year's end unrelated to performance). CompAnalysis (www.compensation.com), an independent compensation and performance management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects firm, has assisted more than 750 clients since 1980. The firm works with a broad variety of industries, and specializes in custom pay and performance management plans for mid-sized organizations. The firm also conducts its annual Greater San Francisco Bay Area Compensation Survey -- which reports pay and benefits data on 87 jobs for local industries of all types and sizes (www.salarysurveys.com). |
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