Chapter Ten Resources

Chapter Ten of the Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers discusses benefits, compensation, and negotiation. Here are some supplementary resources to those included in the chapter.

Further resources and reading on benefits

• Salary.com's Benefits Calculator based on salary and industry www.salary.com/personal/layoutscripts/psnl_default.asp?itab=benefits
• JobWeb.com's "Benefits Count!" This is a good list and description of some of the benefits that might be offered by an employer. www.jobweb.com/resources/library/Salary_and_Benefits/Benefits_Count_40_01.htm
• About.com's "Employee benefits questions to ask" is an article with some general information about benefits as well as some questions you could ask a potential employer to find out more about their benefits package. http://jobsearch.about.com/od/employeebenefits/a/employeebenefit.htm
• About.com's "Benefits and perks" is an article with information on how to evaluate compensation package elements beyond salary. http://jobsearch.about.com/od/salary/a/benefitperk.htm

Further resources and reading on salary and monetary compensation

• Professionals for Nonprofits creates annual nonprofit salary surveys for New York City and Washington, DC. www.nonprofitstaffing.com
• Payscale.com provides a free salary calculator. www.payscale.com
• Monster Salary Center has a salary calculator (powered by Salary.com), as well as a variety of other career resources and tools. http://salary.monster.com
• Quintessential Careers Salary Wizard has a salary calculator (powered by Salary.com). This site also has links to other job/finance calculators such as cost-of-living and job offer assessment tools. http://quintcareers.4jobs.com/JS/CareerResources/Salary
• NonProfit Times Salary Survey is a PDF that explains the results of the NonProfit Times' 2004 salary survey. For more recent versions of the survey, there is a fee. www.nptimes.com/Feb04/specialreport.pdf (PDF)
• GuideStar.org lists salary information for the top-paid employees of almost every nonprofit in the United States. www.guidestar.org
• Indeed.com allows you to search for nonprofit salaries in specific locations. The information is based on the postings on their site. www.indeed.com/salary
• Simply Hired provides a very general range of nonprofit salaries that isn't scaled to particular geographic regions but can be a starting place for getting a sense of the range of nonprofit salaries and positions. www.simplyhired.com/a/salary/search/q-nonprofit

Further resources and reading on disability accommodations

• DiversityWorld.com on disclosing your disability http://www.diversityworld.com/Disability/jobseek.htm#Disclosure
• T-TAP on disclosing your disability, comprehensive Q&A
• U.S. Department of Justice, Americans with Disabilities Act Q&A http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/q%26aeng02.htm
• Job Accommodation Network, fact sheets on accommodations grouped by disability http://www.jan.wvu.edu/media/fact.html#emp
• DisabilityResources.org has disability resources listed state by state http://www.disabilityresources.org/DRMreg.html
• COSD, Career Opportunities for Students with Disabilities www.cosdonline.org