What do you get paid?
A discussion on the WIPT (Women in Progressive Technology) list earlier prompted me to start a little informal survey of two categories of nonprofit workers: tech folk, and communications people. It’s so hard to figure out what reasonable salaries or rates are to ask for these days, especially when many of our for-profit counterparts are jumping onboard to ride the next wave of tech speculation and investment, haha. So, in the comments, please let us know anonymously:
1. if you’re a techie or a communicator
2. your job title
3. your city/locale
4. your responsibilities
5. your compensation. include if you get killer benefits and stuff like that, too.
The comments ask you to leave a name and email address. It’s just for moderation purposes; if you put a name in, that’ll show up, but your email address won’t. The URL will hyperlink the name you enter. None of the info you give will be shared with anyone for anything. A bunch of us are just dead-curious as to what’s happening out there.
1. Communicator and techie
2. Would rather not say (too distinctive)
3. Washington, DC
4. Manage website, email list, staff (3-5), special projects, write and edit content, strategic campaigns, strategic use of social networking, work with affiliates at state and local levels, press and blog outreach, performance metrics, analysis, fiddling and tweaking as needed.
5. $67,000 salary, free health insurance, 401(k)
1. tech
2. web producer for a nonprofit media website
3. new york city
4. basically project management with some amount of coding. get requirements from users, translate for programmer, manage timeline and budget, do some styling work, etc.
5. freelance: $35/hour
1. techie (and a bit of communicating)
2. technical director
3. nyc
4. maintain web infrastructure, develop extensions to content management system, project management sometimes, coding sometimes, strategic planning sometimes.
5. $52,500 plus seriously modest benefits (basic health, a wee bit of pension matching)
1. “techie”
2. don’t think I have one
3. New York, NY
4. maintain and create in-house IT infrastructure (mostly Linux/Mac, some Windows), some coding, other technical work that would give me away if I described it…
5. $39,000, employer-paid healthcare
1. Techie and communicator
2. Not quite director of online communications
3. Washington, DC
4. Manage website and new development projects, 1 staff person, vendor management, budgeting, some other misc crap that’s online-related as it comes up
5. $58,000 fine benefits, not great
1. Techie & Communicator
2. Too Distinctive
3. Washington DC
4. Large online database management.
Plan, write, edit execute design and update three websites.
Write code for web interactivity – data searches/forms etc from/to database
Manage/implement listservs, discussion boards, online classrooms
Design, edit, publish three print publications
Interact with large membership base at all levels.
Other duties as needed.
5. $57,000. +3% pension. No health.
1. communicator (and a bit of techie)
2. associate editor
3. Washington, DC
4. write, edit, plan and coordinate online content, press and blog outreach, manage writers, constituent communications, etc.
5. $45,000 salary. no benefits.
salary wizard is a useful tool for this exercise: http://www.salary.com
1. tech
2. systems administrator/consultant
3. New York
4. Maintain two office network for $3 million/budget non profit organization
5. $60/hour, 10 hours a week, no benefits
1. tech
2. sole proprietor
3. puget sound, wa
4. makin web sites
5. $75/hr
1. Tech
2. Tech Trainer
3. New York City
4. Train youth and adults in various forms of MS Office suite and internet use
5. $45-50/hr, no benefits
1.Tech
2. Freelance tech advisor
3. NYC
4. Database design and UI, website maintenance, hardware debugging, systems integration, security analysis, strategic technology plans, system implementation, etc
5. $20-$100/hr, I pay for my own benefits out of that
1. techie
2. System Administrator (20 hours/week)
3. NYC
4. Sysadmin a network – 45 users (running Windows), four servers (3 windows, 1 linux) over two cities. Provide desktop support. Some light PHP/database work as well.
5. $37.50 an hour plus 4/7ths of benefits of full-time employees (health insurance, vacation, pension, etc.)
I also freelance doing sysadmin work and database development – I charge $75-100/hour based on sliding scale (based on the organization’s gross revenue) with a 20 discount on pre-paid contracts of 10 hours or more.
1. communicator (and soon to be party techie)
2. communications coordinator
3. Chicago
4. media relations (manage incoming media inquiries and pitch stories to the press); write and edit policy papers, op-eds, action alerts, press releases, etc; soon to become primary administrator of agency’s website and author of news blog
5. $32,000, plus free health and dental insurance, 401k
There is a great online salary tool at http://www.payscale.com that lists self-reported salaries (as opposed to other online salary tools). Also great at this website is the GIGZIG tool. You put in your current job title and it lists the most common job titles people have in 5 years from this job (www.payscale.com/gigzig/).
1. techie
2. tech consultant
3. new york city
4. web design, web development, desktop publishing; training nonprofits to develop their own websites/dtp materials/online fundraising; regular fundraising/proposal writing to fund #1 and #2 for various small nonprofits
5. $60,000 salary, health insurance, 401(k)
1. communicator
2. communications director
3. nyc
4. public relations for 80+ books/yr on various progressive political issues; updating website; writing monthly newsletter; maintaining contacts database; extensive copywriting; supporting development work; training and managing rotating staff and interns; producing events; arranging tours and travel; coordinating marketing; collaborating with related non-profits; representation of org at conferences, etc etc etc.
5. $65k plus free health
1. communicator
2. communications director
3. chicago
4. pr, web, events, interns, newsletter, hr, networking, travel, etc.
5. $39,500 plus health and 3% retirement contribution
1. Tech
2. Tech Trainer
3. New York City
4. Train youth and adults in various forms of MS Office suite and internet use
5. $45-50/hr, no benefits