Thousands of nonprofits needed to make informed decisions for pay and benefits, often without a big budget or team. Benchmarking publications turned deep research into simple guides any team could use.
Total Rewards
Total Rewards Researcher
2013 to 2021
Nonprofits carry a lot, often with small teams and tight budgets. Deciding what to pay and what benefits to offer impacts the livelihood of countless people. Clear, trustworthy insights to guide those decisions were hard to find, especially for smaller groups doing important work.
These teams needed more than one salary number. They needed the full picture: pay, benefits, everything that makes up total rewards. They needed it in a form they could actually use, not a dense report that sits on a shelf. The job was to transform complex information into something useful in partnership with PeriscopeIQ.
The work had two sides. First, the research: rigorous enough that a small team could stake real decisions on it without confusion. Then, just as important, it needed to be easy to use. The findings were built into guides anyone could understand right away. Rigorous methods and usability were treated as equals, because either one alone fails the person relying on it.
More than 3,000 nonprofits relied on this work, and the same approach transferred across other industries. PeriscopeIQ returned year after year to partner in developing total rewards benchmarks. Each year, the methodology remained consistent while continuously improving to meet evolving needs across industries.
