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Charity Sector Employees: Employee Stats and Industry Compensation included in new study released by The Charity Report

(September 17, 2020) In an attempt to narrow the information gap about comparative compensation in the charity sector, the Charity Report announced today the release of its latest intelligence report Charity Sector Employees: Employee Stats, Industry Compensation and Salary Averages for 2018.

For those working in the charity sector, the questions come fast and furious. 

  • How many people are employed in the arts sector in Canada? How much are they paid in comparison to those who work in the education sector?
  • Will I be paid a similar wage if I work at an environmental charity in Saskatchewan as I will in New Brunswick? 
  • How do the salaries paid in the charity sector compare to the Canadian average? 
  • How many people actually work in the charity sector? The answer to that question has ranged from two million to four million. What is the real number?

The Charity Employee Sector report gets to the bottom of these questions and much more. 

“This is the most comprehensive report I’ve ever seen on employees and compensation in the charity sector and we’re proud to have produced it,” says Gail Picco, editor in chief of The Charity Report. “Our research team worked extremely hard to provide the most accurate data available with the measurement tools available to us.”

A primary source of information on the charity sector, a sector that controlled the expenditure of more than 280 billion dollars in 2018, is the tax returns every charity must file annually—the T3010. 

“But T3010 data—as many who try to study the sector know—has its limitations,” says Picco,  “but we have worked to identify, account for and mitigate the anomalies in order to produce the most accurate numbers possible for this employee and compensation study.” 

Charity Sector Employees: Employee Stats, Industry Compensation and Salary Averages for 2018 is available only tosubscribers of The Charity Report.  Readers can click here to subscribe.

A subscription to The Charity Report costs $35 a month or $360 a year. Subscribers receive 12 intelligence reports a year. 

“There’s nothing more I’d enjoy than to be able to provide this important information for free,” says Picco. “But the reality is that it takes a lot of resources to produce this kind of independent research. 

“And if charities, and the people who work in them, are interested in receiving independent, well-researched data, we believe we are offering that in an accessible way.”

New subscribers will also be able to download The Cost of Conflict, an analysis of how much it cost international NGOs to mitigate the disaster of the civil war inside Syria, and Where Wealth Resides, a study of the largest private foundations in Canada, and the amount of money that could be generated by raising the disbursement quota.  

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Charity employees, charity salaries, charity sector in Canada

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  • Community Giving: The Growth and Giving Priorities of Community Foundations (January 2021)
  • Who Give and Who Gets: The Beneficiaries of Private Foundation Philanthropy (December 2020)
  • Charity Sector Employees: Employee Stats, Industry Compensation and Salary Averages for 2018 (September 2020)
  • Where Wealth Resides: The Funding of Philanthropy (July 2020)
  • The Cost of Conflict: How we measure the global failure in Syria (June 2020) 

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