The survey will be even more useful to larger nonprofits because of extensive changes that the Internal Revenue Service has made to the annual form 990 information tax return.

Since 2001 the IRS has encouraged charities to go through a set of steps to ensure that executive compensation is set appropriately.  On the revised form 990, the IRS has standardized reporting to make comparing salaries easier and requires charities to provide information about the process they use to set the salaries of employees who receive $150,000 or more in total compensation.

The survey will help you navigate through this new process and will be a primary tool to help you document the rationale you use to set the salaries you pay your executives.

Conducting your agency’s own compensation and benefits survey to satisfy IRS requirements would cost you a small fortune, maybe as much as $5,000 - $10,000 to have a consultant to get you some usable comparables.  A much better alternative would be for you to acquire the 2013 compensation and benefits survey report for a fraction of this amount.  It’s a no brainer!

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Every time I hear mention of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic horror film, “Psycho”, I think of Barbara Schilling, who passed away in 1992.  Not because she was scary:  she was a sweetheart, a trusted colleague and friend and a remarkably gifted nonprofit consultant.

Barbara conceptualized the Annual Wage and Benefit Survey of Northern California Nonprofit Organizations, The Guide to California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law, Opportunity NOCs (nonprofit organizations classifieds), The Glossary of Tools and Concepts for Nonprofit Managers and countless other useful innovations for Bay Area nonprofits during her morning shower at her home in Atherton.

Yes, that's where she thought up all these wonderful innovations.

In her early career, Barbara worked for the Polaroid Corporation in the area of human resources.  Got married, gave up her career and raised her family.  On the side she joined the Junior League and numerous nonprofit boards, learning how it’s done and how it could be done better.  Barbara became an expert on nonprofit boards and human resources because she’d done it.  When her two sons grew up, she began her own personal business called "Ask Barbara."  She joined the staff of the Support Center in San Francisco and she and I co-founded The Management Center in 1977.

We hope the 2013 survey will help you and your organization. If it does, think of Barbara Schilling who dreamed the whole thing up 35 years ago.

Better still, grab a new bar of soap, get the hot water running and step into the shower!

Bob Orser
Co-Publisher