2024 Salary Data for Southeast Grantmakers Now Available
Each year, Philanthropy Southeast partners with the Council on Foundations (COF) to produce salary benchmarking reports for foundation staff and CEOs in the Southeast. These reports include the average, median, minimum and maximum salaries for a range of 38 staff positions at all levels in foundations based in the 11 Southeast states and U.S. Caribbean territories. Salary tables are organized by both grantmaker type and asset size to provide quick access to benchmarking data for foundations of all shapes and sizes.
Salary information for 2024 is drawn from data on more than 11,000 full-time paid staff at more than 1,000 grantmaking organizations. The South region accounted for approximately 27 percent of all respondents, with 278 organizations participating from across the region. We wish to thank each of our Philanthropy Southeast member organizations that responded to the 2024 Grantmaker Salary and Benefits Survey earlier this year, providing the valuable benchmarking data that informs these reports.
The 2024 salary tables for Southeast foundations are available exclusively to Philanthropy Southeast members under the For Members section of our web site – or you can click this link to access them directly (login required).
Findings from the latest Grantmaker Salary and Benefits (GSB) Survey show that median salary increases were 4.3 percent for 2024; down slightly from 2022-2023 but still above the long-term average. Turnover rates, after having spiked in 2023, returned to prior levels. The mean turnover rate for participating organizations was 10.8 percent, down from a high of 13.1 percent the previous year.
The report also shows continued progress on diversity in grantmaking organizations. People of color made up 33.5 percent of full-time staff in the survey sample, up from 27 percent in 2020. Similarly, there are signs of continued diversification among foundation CEOs, with 17.1 percent identifying as people of color, up from 14.9 percent in 2023.
As a reminder, organizations that participated in the 2024 GSB Survey can download the full national report from COF’s Benchmark Central and also access the benchmarking tool to run salary, benefits, and demographics comparisons by asset size, grants, geographic location, and grantmaker type. This year’s report is also accompanied by data tables covering board compensation and demographics.
If your organization is interested in participating in next year’s study, look for the GSB Survey to open for respondents in Q1 2025.
