“Those salaries (at FFTC and Duke Endowment) are not out of line with what other similarly sized organizations pay all across the country,” said Aaron Dorfman, CEO of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, a group that monitors charitable foundations. “That doesn’t mean it’s right. But it is what everyone else is doing.”
While more pay and more benefits are the trend, Dorfman says that’s partly because nonprofit organizations use data from comparable groups to determine executive compensation — creating a cycle of higher pay and more benefits.
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