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A quick round up of our latest and upcoming activities across the sector, including the hotly-anticipated return of the Charity Softball League and news on our 2017 Salary Survey...
Three cheers for community fundraising careers!
A big thank you to the Institute of Fundraising's Community Fundraising special interest group for inviting us to lead Thursday's (27th April) workshop on the career development options for community fundraisers, followed by some well-earned drinks at The Castle in Farringdon. We were delighted to help and hope you were able to pick up some useful advice from our fundraising specialists.
If you missed it you'll find a few of the tips over on our Twitter feed, which also happens to be a great way of catching the latest jobs as soon as they're posted.
It's back...
...and raring to go! The start of May means the 2017 Harris Hill Charity Softball season is now officially underway, and as always we're beyond impressed with the sheer dedication of the countless charities involved - friendly (but fierce) practice matches galore already!
You can follow all the fixtures and results here, and be sure to check out the Charity Softball Twitter feed for up-to-the-minute reports and all the charity softball chat you could ever need...
Thanks as ever to the ultra-efficient organising committee (including a big welcome to your new members!), and to our fellow sponsors Blue Step Solutions and Snap Print Management/RNB Group who have got some great things lined up for the summer.
High time for a higher salary?
Lastly it's almost time to reveal our findings on the facts and figures, finances and funding that have driven charity salaries over the past 12 months - but in which direction? Watch this space for the brand new 2017 Harris Hill Salary Survey coming very soon.
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Charity sector salaries
Our 2025 Salary Survey has the latest rates and expert insight for roles throughout the sector.
News and insights
2025 Salary Survey: Charity CEO salaries and executive trends
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.Every organisation is unique, with its own particular priorities...
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2025 Salary Survey: temps market trends
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.It says everything about the current market that this is the only one of our specialist areas to ...
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2025 Salary Survey: finance market trends
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 ...
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2025 Salary Survey: business services market trends
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 work...
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Charity salaries: the ten-year trends
How have charity salaries progressed in the last 10 years? Who's seen the highest and lowest increases? And how has the sector fared against others and the cost of living? Our 2025 Salary Survey gives us a tenth year of directly comparable data, so this time, along with the latest rates for third sector jobs, we look at the longer-term changes too, travelling back to 2015 to compare rates of pa...
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2025 Salary Survey: marketing, PR and digital trends
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 marke...
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2025 Salary Survey: fundraising market trends
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).It’s not the way we might want it to happen, but a combination o...
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2025 Salary Survey: market overview
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....
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