Nonprofit Compensation Report

GuideStar has published highlights of their 2007 Nonprofit Compensation Report. Info was taken from over 55,000 990's filed in 2005. Highlights of the highlights:

• Median compensation of females continued to lag behind that of males when considering comparable positions at similar organizations.
• Females held 50 percent of CEO positions at organizations with expenses of $1 million or less but only 34 percent at organizations with expenses of greater than $1 million. Overall, women held 41 percent of the positions reported upon but received only 32 percent of the total compensation.
• Health and science organizations had the highest overall median salaries. Food, religion, and housing organizations brought up the rear.
• Washington, D.C., had the highest overall median salaries of the 20 largest metropolitan statistical areas; Riverside-San Bernardino, CA, had the lowest.

The linked-to article has a lot more information.