Here's how your agency can benefit from what we consider to be the best survey of its kind in the country:

• Current, local compensation data on 167 jobs often found at nonprofit organizations
• Base pay levels and bonus/incentive pay for each job with details by annual operating budget, location within Northern California, number of employees and primary field of service
• Employee benefits in detail: paid time off, insurance, retirement
• Salary increases over past year and expected during next year
• Policies with respect to on-call work, overtime, shift differentials, pay for bilingual skills, introductory periods, performance reviews and more.

The survey also helps your agency find out how the local nonprofit community is coping with the recession.  Here are some questions the survey can help nonprofit managers answer:

• How do the salaries paid at our organization compare with those paid at similar, local organizations?
• Are organizations still freezing salary levels, or are more planning to increase salaries during the next year?
• How common are bonuses or incentive pay for jobs like ours?
• Are organizations shifting benefits costs to employees?
• How do pay levels for male and female Executive Directors compare?

And if that's not enough incentive for you, consider this.

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 is requiring 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 your board of directors document the rationale they use to set the salaries they pay their executives.

The survey exists only because of you Northern California nonprofits who take the time to participate in it year after year.  In a large part, it's really your survey.

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Understanding your own compensation practices. Hood & Strong LLP has served hundreds of not for profit organizations in the Bay Area since 1917. More than just audit and tax, their Not for Profit Group is one of the most recognized teams of dedicated professionals known for their work in solving the business side issues related to advancing your cause.

Understanding your own compensation practices is critical to your strategic planning and effective operations.  Because accurate, up to date information is critical to sound decision making, Hood & Strong LLP works to not only make this information available, but to advise on what it means for your own organization. They walk you through ideas, providing insight and inspiration to make the information work for you. Whether you are a foundation, social service agency, membership organization, private school or university, museum or other type of tax exempt organization, their not for profit group enables you to spend more of your time focusing on mission critical activities. Hood & Strong works to advance your cause.  With 7 partners and 10 managers, you have personalized expertise to streamline your business operations, plan strategically for the future, implement technology into your daily processes, and create systems to benchmark yourself with similar organizations. They work as tirelessly as you do.  After all, they have a 94 year reputation to uphold, not simply serving our not-for-profit organizations, but enabling them to have even greater impact in our community. Hood & Strong LLP has offices in San Francisco, Redwood Shores and San Jose, California. Telephone: (415) 781-0793   www.hoodstrong.com

 

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 2011 and 2012 Compensation and Benefits Surveys will help you and your organization.  If they do, think of Barbara Schilling who dreamed the whole thing up 34 years ago.

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

Bob Orser
The Nonprofit Doctor