Competency-based questions are all about your experience and whether they’re the main focus of your interview or not, it’s worth knowing how to answer them. Director Jenny Hills of our Executive Search practice offers expert insight and advice in the first of a two-part guide.
In part two of our guide, Jenny Hills looks at what to say when you don't have the competency in question, and how to bring out your personality, values and vision for the future, even if the questions focus firmly on your past...
How much do charity CEOs get paid? The short answer is that although charity leaders tend to earn considerably less than their commercial counterparts, pay still varies enormously, depending on factors like the size and complexity of the charity's operations, its annual income, and the scale of the challenge facing the incoming CEO.
Tough economic times have certainly had an impact on the number of permanent hires that charities have been able to make this year, but what about temporary and interim positions? Here's what our Temps specialists had to say about the trends they're seeing in the market, in our 2025 Salary Survey .
Say you work in finance and many will imagine a world of six-figure salaries, baffling spreadsheets, detached houses in the Home Counties and a statistically inexplicable number of people called Steve. Working in charity finance however, is – baffling spreadsheets aside – a rather different story, but with their finger on the pulse and their ear to the ground at all times (we should really get them some chairs), our finance specialists are perfectly placed to bring you up to speed on the latest twists and turns. Here’s what they had to say about remuneration and recruitment trends in the current market, in our 2025 Salary Survey .
The roles we group under ‘Business Services’ aren’t about raising funds or raising profile, but about delivering an organisation’s work – including operational staff at all levels, project managers, programme leaders and all the admin, data and support staff in less visible roles that are nonetheless essential to getting things done. So what’s happening in the recruitment market for those working in these areas? Here’s what our specialists had to say in our 2025 Salary Survey.
How we’ve made these comparisons Salaries for any given role fall within a certain range (e.g. £42,000 - £48,000) which is what appears in our survey. However, comparing ranges can be misleading if they vary in width from year to year, as indeed they do. For a clearer picture, we’re using a single value – the exact midpoint of each range (e.g. £45,000 in the above case) as an approximation of the average. We're then calculating the change in that figure between our 2015 and 2025 surveys, to compare 2015 salaries in six key charity departments with those of the same roles today. It’s not perfectly scientific: for one thing, the figures aren’t weighted for the relative number of people in each role (managers outnumbering heads of department, for example), but it gives us a reasonable approximation of the relative increases in each area and across the sector as a whole.
As a charity professional, your experience of working and job-seeking in the sector will very much depend on the type of work you do, which is why our 2025 Salary Survey looks at the trends and challenges for each specialist area in turn. You can find the figures for all departments in the full survey here , but in the meantime, here’s what we’re currently seeing in the market for those in marketing, communications, PR and digital roles. ​
Driven by high demand and short supply, fundraisers' salaries have been rising in recent years, but how have things changed in the last 12 months? What kind of roles are organisations offering and which are the most challenging to fill? Here's what our fundraising specialists had to say in our 2025 Salary Survey (available here ).
The 2025 Harris Hill Salary Survey is out now (get your copy here) , reporting on charity and not-for-profit sector salaries over the last 12 months, with the latest rates and expert insight for each of our specialist areas. This year we're also looking at how pay in the sector has evolved over the last 10 years, but first, here's what we had to say about the charity recruitment market in 2025.
Competency-based questions are all about your experience and whether they’re the main focus of your interview or not, it’s worth knowing how to answer them. Director Jenny Hills of our Executive Search practice offers expert insight and advice in the first of a two-part guide.
In part two of our guide, Jenny Hills looks at what to say when you don't have the competency in question, and how to bring out your personality, values and vision for the future, even if the questions focus firmly on your past...
How much do charity CEOs get paid? The short answer is that although charity leaders tend to earn considerably less than their commercial counterparts, pay still varies enormously, depending on factors like the size and complexity of the charity's operations, its annual income, and the scale of the challenge facing the incoming CEO.
Tough economic times have certainly had an impact on the number of permanent hires that charities have been able to make this year, but what about temporary and interim positions? Here's what our Temps specialists had to say about the trends they're seeing in the market, in our 2025 Salary Survey .
Say you work in finance and many will imagine a world of six-figure salaries, baffling spreadsheets, detached houses in the Home Counties and a statistically inexplicable number of people called Steve. Working in charity finance however, is – baffling spreadsheets aside – a rather different story, but with their finger on the pulse and their ear to the ground at all times (we should really get them some chairs), our finance specialists are perfectly placed to bring you up to speed on the latest twists and turns. Here’s what they had to say about remuneration and recruitment trends in the current market, in our 2025 Salary Survey .
The roles we group under ‘Business Services’ aren’t about raising funds or raising profile, but about delivering an organisation’s work – including operational staff at all levels, project managers, programme leaders and all the admin, data and support staff in less visible roles that are nonetheless essential to getting things done. So what’s happening in the recruitment market for those working in these areas? Here’s what our specialists had to say in our 2025 Salary Survey.
How we’ve made these comparisons Salaries for any given role fall within a certain range (e.g. £42,000 - £48,000) which is what appears in our survey. However, comparing ranges can be misleading if they vary in width from year to year, as indeed they do. For a clearer picture, we’re using a single value – the exact midpoint of each range (e.g. £45,000 in the above case) as an approximation of the average. We're then calculating the change in that figure between our 2015 and 2025 surveys, to compare 2015 salaries in six key charity departments with those of the same roles today. It’s not perfectly scientific: for one thing, the figures aren’t weighted for the relative number of people in each role (managers outnumbering heads of department, for example), but it gives us a reasonable approximation of the relative increases in each area and across the sector as a whole.
As a charity professional, your experience of working and job-seeking in the sector will very much depend on the type of work you do, which is why our 2025 Salary Survey looks at the trends and challenges for each specialist area in turn. You can find the figures for all departments in the full survey here , but in the meantime, here’s what we’re currently seeing in the market for those in marketing, communications, PR and digital roles. ​
Driven by high demand and short supply, fundraisers' salaries have been rising in recent years, but how have things changed in the last 12 months? What kind of roles are organisations offering and which are the most challenging to fill? Here's what our fundraising specialists had to say in our 2025 Salary Survey (available here ).
The 2025 Harris Hill Salary Survey is out now (get your copy here) , reporting on charity and not-for-profit sector salaries over the last 12 months, with the latest rates and expert insight for each of our specialist areas. This year we're also looking at how pay in the sector has evolved over the last 10 years, but first, here's what we had to say about the charity recruitment market in 2025.
