August 13, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute
In recent years, experienced fund raisers who work for colleges and universities have benefited from generous annual salary increases that far outpace inflation.
That’s one conclusion to emerge from a compensation survey conducted every few years by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.
This year’s survey with 9,314 fund raisers found that, since 2005 when the data was last collected, fund raisers with more than five years of experience reported annual pay increases of 8 to 9 percent.
Their average salaries ranged from $64,369 among fund raisers with six to 10 years of experience to $103,499 among those who had worked in the field for 20 or more years.
Do these figures make you want to work for a college or university? By what percentage has your salary increased this year?
