Just Published | Fair Pay for Northern & Southern California Nonprofits: The 2025 Compensation & Benefits Surveys 

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 
• An updated “Economic Environment” section with new questions about employee engagement/retention, inflation-related contract adjustments and student loan re–payment. 

The survey will also help your organization find out how the 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? 

These surveys are conducted and published by Nonprofit Compensation Associates, Inc. Contact them at survey@nonprofitcomp.com or 510-645-1005. 

For more information:

• Northern California nonprofitcomp.com 
• Southern California socal.nonprofitcomp.com