2014 Irish fundraising salary survey published
Howard Lake | 17 December 2014 | News
The average head of fundraising at a caharity in Ireland earns €60,000, according to a new survey of fundraising salaries.
The survey also found that over two thirds of professional fundraising staff in Ireland are female, with around half of heads of fundraising also female. Less than 20% of fundraising staff have a qualification in fundraising, the survey reports.
The survey was produced by Charity Careers Ireland in partnership with Fundraising Ireland, Business to Arts and The Wheel. The survey was based on responses from 162 professional fundraisers working in the Republic of Ireland during October 2014.
Key findings include:
· The average salary for a Fundraising Administrator is €24,610, while the average salary for a Head of/Director of Fundraising is €60,024.
· Fewer than one in five fundraisers in the Republic of Ireland have a vocational qualification in fundraising.
· Two-thirds of fundraisers in the Republic of Ireland (67.3%) are female. Irish fundraising’s gender imbalance increases at Manager-level with the female/male ratio increasing further (to 71%). The balance is restored at Director level with slightly more men than women becoming Directors of Fundraising, but no more so than Ireland’s population gender ratio.
· The majority (57.3%) of fundraisers in the Republic are under the age of 40.
· More than three-quarters of fundraisers (76.4%) have a degree.
· Over a third (36%) of fundraisers in the Republic of Ireland believes they have not received appropriate training for their role.
· Almost one in ten (9.3%) of fundraisers are financially incentivised.
· One in nine (11.1%) of fundraisers work on a contractual or temporary basis.
· Corporate Fundraising (14.2%) is the most common fundraising specialism amongst the respondents. Legacy Fundraising (2.6%) is the least common specialism. Around one in seven fundraisers in the Republic of Ireland are general fundraisers.
· Marketing (19.8%), Events Management (15.4%), Sales (12.3%) and Administration (9.9%) are the most common backgrounds for fundraisers in the Republic of Ireland.
A copy of the 2014 Republic of Ireland Fundraising Salary report is available on Fundraising Ireland’s website.
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He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.