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Here's the article I was trying to write in Nonprofit Doublespeak/Excessive Compensation : Who here is a compensation specialist? Not me, but I know there is a science to it. Salaries aren't (usually) plucked out of thin air. They are determined, not just by mean and median, but by geography, skills, the market and scope of responsibility. Therefore, before we evaluate whether a $200,000+ salary could be appropriate for a non-profit executive, let us go through three steps: STEP ONE: CONTEXT Start with some stats cut and pasted from the "Economic Statistics Briefing Room" section of the White House's website... Median household income was $46,326 in 2005, up 1.1 percent from 2004 after adjusting for inflation. This is the first annual increase in real median household income since 1999. Since 1967, the first year for which household income statistics are available, real median household income was up 30.9 percent How does that break down by ethnicit...

Women in Nonprofits, Women in Engineering? by pam ashlund I was thinking about the notion that nonprofits are run by women. That is probably still true, I'll have to look around for some stats. In my quest I came across the Women in Engineering organization. I didn't find stats, but I did find this: Contact Webmaster Peter Wong at: peter.wong@tufts.edu But either way, that got me thinking about a group my sister introduced me to years ago: Society of Women Engineers . I surfed over to their site tonite to see what the dismal stats were on women holding jobs in engineering, and here is what I found: We've come a long way baby. sigh. Technorati Tags: Nonprofit , Womens Issues , Women in Engineering