Can anyone in the nonprofit world help me guesstimate salary for this type of position?

[Anonymous]

I do hiring for a living. You can definitely defer on this question. Let them know what you currently make, and state that you don't have specific requirements but want to look at the entire package that they would offer (salary, bonus potential, 401k or alternate retirement plan for nonprofit, benefits, etc.). State that for the right position you are willing to take a salary cut so you'd like to review their offer after you farther along in the process and better understand the position requirements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do hiring for a living. You can definitely defer on this question. Let them know what you currently make, and state that you don't have specific requirements but want to look at the entire package that they would offer (salary, bonus potential, 401k or alternate retirement plan for nonprofit, benefits, etc.). State that for the right position you are willing to take a salary cut so you'd like to review their offer after you farther along in the process and better understand the position requirements.

OP here. Thanks for all the additional input. 15:07 well stated. It's so true that the salary depends on the job and it makes little sense to throw out a number without knowing much about the job. My only concern is whether not answering the salary question means that someone in HR is going to dump my resume in the shredder and I won't even make it to the hiring manager's desk.

[Anonymous]

try glassdoor.com to look up salaries. you can look them up by specific org, or by job title and city. That should help give you some info.

[Anonymous]

When I applied for my current nonprofit position, it asked for salary in the appication. I did not provide a range but was asked for it after I applied, before anything else.

What 15:07 says is not necessarily true for nonprofits, especially small ones. They just want to know whether you would even consider a salary in their range, or if you are just too expensive. If you are coming from for-profit law, you need to be upfront about what you would take and why. Otherwise I would consider you to be just to expensive.

But definitely check Guidestar and Glassdoor.

Good luck.

[Anonymous]

15:07 again... any nonprofit HR team who knows what they are doing will not automatically rule somewhat out for not including that information. It just isn't professional. HR's job is to find the best candidates, and if your resume looks good and your cover letter is compelling that is much more important than the operational aspect of if you've answered their salary question.

As for 22:04's comments, I understand that you might feel that way but there are always ways to negotiate around the question... such as stating that you are not comfortable providing a salary range until you learn more about the position and/or stating that if it is critical that the organization knows the applicant's salary range could they please provide it and she can confirm if it will work for her.

also, in my opinion glass door is full of inaccurate info (and some accurate!) so please just be careful and don't rely on what you read there (or here for that matter ).
good luck!