The Average Salary for Non Profit Directors
The executive director of a nonprofit may also be known by other titles, including director, chief executive officer and president. A nonprofit director's job responsibilities include organizing annual funding campaigns, networking, promoting awareness of the organization in the community and supervising staff members. The salary of the nonprofit executive director depends in large part on the budget size of the organization.
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Surveys
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Salary surveys for nonprofit executive directors have been shown to be inconsistent much of the time. Sample sizes are typically small, and samples often include enough universities to weight the survey results toward university salaries.
Budget Size
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The size of an organization plays the largest role in determining the salary of an executive director. Nonprofit executive directors who are given a raise by their boards of directors then have to go raise the money for their own salary, which can be a daunting task for a small nonprofit.
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Examples
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PayScale, the salary survey website, states in a survey of 8,068 individuals that the salary of nonprofit executive directors is between $44,796 and $80,474 as of February 2011.
One 2007 survey of nonprofit executive directors in Maricopa and Pima counties, Arizona, placed the median salary of an executive director at $44,000 for an organization with a budget of less than $100,000. With a budget between $500,000 and $1 million, the salary increased to $64,000. With a budget between $5 million and $10 million, a nonprofit executive director in those counties had a median salary of $115,881. The median salary increased to $132,000 with a budget of more than $10 million.
This same survey noted that the national average salary of a nonprofit director with an organization budget of less than $100,000 is $26,143; $69,489 with a budget between $500,000 and $1 million; $102,389 for a budget between $5 million and $10 million; and $135,402 with a budget of more than $10 million.
Gender
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The differences in salary between males and females can be significant for executive directors of nonprofit organizations. Women generally outnumber men in nonprofit organizations as executive directors, but as budgets increase, so does the proportion of men who are executive directors. In the Arizona study, for example, 69 percent of executive directors in Maricopa and Pima counties were male in organizations with budgets of more than $10 million. However, overall, women held 58 percent of nonprofit executive director positions in those counties. Overall, the average salary for male executive directors was $95,891, and it was $77,728 for female executive directors.
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