Executive & Organizational Compensation

Strengthening Partnerships through Collaboration

A chief responsibility of boards of trustees is to select, nurture, evaluate, and compensate the president / CEO / head of school / executive director. A successful partnership leads to satisfied, longer serving senior leaders, which in turn leads to greater mission fulfillment.

Mission & Data’s executive compensation consultative process is designed to provide both the board and president / CEO / head of school / executive director with robust comparability data and explore various components of compensation, some of which are highly complex and often overlooked. Mission & Data will guide the board through steps to establish the IRS’s rebuttable presumption of reasonableness of the senior leader’s compensation, necessary under Section 4958 of the IRS’s Internal Revenue Code. In this process, we serve as an independent compensation consultant and facilitator of the contract renewal process. Furthermore, we advise boards making first contract offers to newly selected senior leaders.

Mission & Data offers executive compensation services to associations and other nonprofits determining the compensation for their senior leader.

We also work with president / CEO / head of school / executive director to advise them when setting the compensation for other leaders in their schools, including:

  • Chief Financial Officers

  • Chief Operating Officers

    • Note that CEOs, Presidents, Heads of School, Executive Directors, CFOs, and COOs are “disqualified persons” under Section 4958 and are thus subject to intermediate sanctions for excess benefit transactions. Establishing the rebuttable presumption of reasonableness of the compensation for these roles is very important.

  • Chief Advancement/Development Officers

  • Chief Enrollment Officers

  • Chief Technology Officers

  • Chief Human Resource Officers