2025 Development/Fundraising Staff Compensation Survey

General Information

Altura Consulting Group is pleased to announce the 2025 Development/Fundraising Staff Compensation Survey. The survey covers base pay and incentives for 47 development/fundraising positions (including 5 new positions this year, listed below), as well as sign-on and retention bonus practices. See links below for a complete list of survey jobs.

Development Writer
Development Writer, Senior
Director of Development Communications
Prospect Management Specialist, Senior
Prospect Researcher, Senior

Survey Pricing

The results report (PDF & Excel file formats) is available to survey participants for $155. Non-participants can also purchase the results report for $315.

Survey Timing

Survey Invitations: February 24, 2025 (Effective date of data: February 1, 2025)
Participation EXTENDED Deadline: April 11, 2025
Report Distribution: By May 9, 2025

Survey Information and Participation Materials

To participate in the survey, click on the Participation Form below. When it opens, DOWNLOAD and SAVE the Excel file to your computer and begin completing the survey. While you can email your completed survey participation form to us at surveys@alturaconsultinggroup.com, we encourage participants to use our secure Citrix upload portal to ensure the protection of their completed participation form. Click here to access secure portal.

Survey Administrator

Altura Consulting Group LLC
520 Indian Mound Street, Suite 1A
Wayzata, MN 55391
763-745-9425
www.alturaconsultinggroup.com
surveys@alturaconsultinggroup.com

Statement of Confidentiality

The objective of Altura’s survey reports and all methods and procedures used to produce the reports, is to provide maximum information value without disclosing any information that could be specifically associated with an individual survey participant.

All survey data submitted by participants for surveys conducted by Altura Consulting Group is provided on the basis that the data confidentiality of each participant will be fully protected at all times.

Protection of confidentiality extends to compensation data reported and to any kind of observation or form of analysis that could serve to identify a company with its data to an experienced person.

Our surveys are designed and administered in compliance with anti-trust guidelines.