Attract and Retain the Best Employees for your Organization in 2025 and Beyond

Participate in Fair Pay for Northern California Nonprofits: The 2025 Compensation & Benefits Survey

 

Extended deadline: March 7, 2025
Report publication date: April 14, 2025

 

 

Now open for participation, with new jobs in the Development, Education/Recreation, Housing, Social
Services/Behavioral Health areas, as well as an updated “Impact of the Economic Environment” section with new questions about employee engagement/retention, inflation-related contract adjustments and student loan re-payment.

 

 

Low unemployment, high costs, uncertainty about shifting governmental policies and evolving workplace practices present challenges for nonprofit employers who manage their organizations’ compensation and benefits policies. Here’s how your organization will benefit from the 2025 survey report:

 

  • Current, local compensation data on more than 200 jobs found in nonprofit organizations
  • Base pay levels and bonus/incentive pay for each job with details by annual operating budget, location within the survey region, number of employees and primary field of service
  • Employee benefits in detail: paid time off, insurance, retirement
  • Salary increases over the past year and expected during the next year
  • Policies with respect to on-call work, overtime, shift differentials, pay for bilingual skills, introductory periods, performance reviews, DEI practices and more

 

 

The survey will also help your organization find out how the local nonprofit community is responding to
current economic conditions. Here are some questions the survey can help nonprofit managers answer:

 

  • For what kinds of jobs are nonprofits having difficulty hiring and retaining employees?
  • Are nonprofit employees working remotely, in person, or a combination of both?
  • What employee turnover rates have organizations experienced during the past year, and how concerned are they about turnover in 2025?

 

 

The cost of the survey report is steeply discounted for participants and depends on your organization’s
financial size:

 

  • Under $1,000,000 in annual operating expenses:
    • Survey Participant: $90 (Order by 2/14/25), $100 (Order after 2/14/25)
    • Non-participant: $270
  • $1,000,000 – $5,000,000 in annual operating expenses:
    • Survey Participant: $140 (Order by 2/14/25), $155 (Order after 2/14/25)
    • Non-participant: $420
  • More than $5,000,000 in annual operating expenses:
    • Survey Participant: $190 (Order by 2/14/25), $210 (Order after 2/14/25)
    • Non-participant: $570

 

 

Published by Oakland-based Nonprofit Compensation Associates, the survey covers a vast geographic area, 48 Northern California counties, from Del Norte County in the far northwest to Inyo County in the far southeast. This past year, 794 nonprofits reporting on more than 45,000 jobs participated in the 2024 survey, making it the largest and most robust in the survey’s 46-year history. We expect another strong response in for 2025.

 

 

Nonprofits, complete the survey here.

 

 

To participate in the 2025 survey (and acquire the 2024 survey report via our “2-for-1” offer, if you don’t already have it), visit www.nonprofitcomp.com, email Nonprofit Compensation Associates at survey@nonprofitcomp.com or call 510-645-1005.