Can anyone in the nonprofit world help me guesstimate salary for this type of position?
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Anonymous
| I'm a lawyer and have worked in a big firm and government, and now I am thinking about moving to a legal position with a nonprofit that advocates for causes, i.e., a Feed the Children or Planned Parenthood type of organization. Not necessarily those specific ones, I just mean that type of org as opposed to some nonprofits that have large endowments and thus higher salaries (at least I think?). I have over ten years of experience. Can anyone give me a ballpark for what sort of salary I should expect? I'm asking for planning purposes and also because I've seen that in many of these job postings they ask that you include salary requirements in the cover letter, and I don't know what is realistic to ask for. |
Anonymous
| Really depends on size of org and sector. But I think $75-125k is probably your ballpark. If you can give more information on the org I can be more helpful. |
Anonymous
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Uh. Feed the Children and Planned Parenthood are considered large nonprofits with large endowments.
But to answer the question, I think you're trying to ask, anywhere between $40K - $90K. Look up the organizations public tax records and you'll see the salaries. |
Anonymous
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Guidestar has 990s for nonprofits but only for top staff.
I'd guess 50,000 to 75,000. |
Anonymous
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Find comparable orgs and pull the 990s. You can at least get a sense of what the top staff are being paid.
And the ones you mentioned are very much on the large side. |
Anonymous
| Op here thanks. I'll check guides tar |
Anonymous
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It depends--are you going to be like a staff attorney person, doing direct legal advocacy work? That pays far, far less, than, say, a non-profit GC or other corporate lawyer. There are tons of hungry young lawyers willing to do the advocacy jobs for 40K a year.
I am a GC at a nonprofit with a 30M operating budget, and I make 115K base, plus around 18K in deferred comp. |
Anonymous
| 75 would be low but not unheard of for a senior nonprofit lawyer. 125 would seem very high for a poverty law type place. And sometimes salaries are cultural too - certain nonprofits wear their low salaries as a badge of honor. My advice would be to not give a salary range until you have an offer. |
Anonymous
| I think that it must really depend on the organization. I used to work for a non-profit that does domestic and international development work. I am not a lawyer - my position was a mid-high level manager and I made about $120K. I moved over to federal government and took a small pay cut. |
Anonymous
| It depends how high a level in the org. The general counsel in large nonprofits make anywhere from 200,00 to 375,000. Staff attorney could make 175,000 or more, depending on the position/level. |
Anonymous
Whoa, at what nonprofit would a staff attorney make 175k?? It would have to be a really huge one. I have never heard of that. |
Anonymous
| Around 100k |
Anonymous
Pretty common in trade groups. I'm in a mid-size org and make $150k as marketing director. All the staff above me are in that range. |
Anonymous
| A trade group and a nonprofit are two completely separate thing. I work at a large (not on the scale of planned parenthood) nonprofit in DC. I would pay between $80K and $120K for this. I pay my marketing person around $150K. Even as a lawyer myself, I just would not pay on the same level as my executive staff. |
Anonymous
| Agree with 13:05, and keep in mind that if it is a non-legal oriented nonprofit, your comp is not going to be extra special just because you are a lawyer. If you fit into the org at the, say, mid-sr manager level, you're likely going to get paid within the same salary range as a mid-sr marketing person, or whatever. And if there are revenue-generators (development people, whatever), they will make more than you--you are a cost center. |