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Setting your leader's pay shouldn't come down to a guess.

Every year your board signs off on what your leaders earn, the CEO and everyone else your 990 makes public. ExemptPay benchmarks them all against real peers, so you can pay fairly, keep the people you have, and back every number with data. And if a donor, auditor, or regulator ever asks, you're already prepared.

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✓Public IRS Form 990 data
✓Independent of management
✓Auditable, line by line
Market Findings
Strong comparability
SAMPLE ORG: RIVERBEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION · IRS FORM 990 DATA
Position
Current
Status
Chief Executive Officer
$312,000
At market
Chief Financial Officer
$214,500
Above P75
VP, Development
$148,200
Within range
Every row traces to a public 990. Sample size & P10–P90 percentiles shown in the full report.
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4 minutes
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Board Confidence Report

Benchmark every leader your 990 reports, with percentile detail, minutes-ready language, and the §4958 checklist. Board-ready in minutes.

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Whether you're setting pay, defending it, or answering a 990 question.

Set a new hire's pay
Walk into the offer conversation with a defensible range, not a shot in the dark or last year's number plus a bump.
Defend the current number
Show a donor, a staffer, or a skeptical board member exactly where each leader sits against real peers.
Answer a 990 question
When a reporter, regulator, or major funder asks, the comparables are already documented and on file.
The decision

The hardest number your board sets all year.

Approve too little and you risk losing the leader you worked hard to keep. Approve too much and you’ll hear about it, from donors, staff, or the community. Most boards still make the call on last year’s figure and a gut feel. There’s a firmer basis.

“Are we paying fairly?”
Real percentile benchmarks from peer organizations your size, sector, and region, so “fair” is a number you can point to, not an opinion.
“Will we keep our leader?”
See exactly where your executive sits against the market. Catch an under-market gap before a recruiter does.
“Can we back it up?”
A documented, minutes-ready record, with a §4958 checklist built in. If a donor, auditor, or regulator ever asks, the answer’s already on file.
Not legal, tax, accounting, or audit advice. ExemptPay provides the comparability data and documentation to support your board’s compensation decisions.
Why you can trust it

Numbers anyone in the room can check.

A benchmark is only worth what its source can withstand. Every figure here comes from public filings, not a proprietary black box, and not the numbers management brought to the meeting.

Public source traceability
Every number traces to a specific IRS Form 990. Your auditor, board chair, or funder can verify it independently.
Sample size on every row
N and organization count are shown for each benchmark, so you see the statistical weight, not just the figure.
Documented methodology
Peer matching, winsorizing, and the Market Composite math are explained in plain language any board member can follow.
Independent of management
The data answers to the board, not the executive being reviewed. No conflict, no self-report.
Beyond raw data

The 990s are free. Turning them into a defensible decision isn’t.

Candid, ProPublica, and the IRS will hand you a stack of filings. ExemptPay turns thousands of them into a peer benchmark you can take to your board, with the statistics shown, not hidden.

Pulling the 990s yourself
CANDID · PROPUBLICA · IRS TEOS
✕One organization's filing at a time, no peer set
✕A lone number, no distribution or percentiles
✕No compa-ratio, pay range, or variance status
✕No sample size, is it 4 orgs or 400? You can't tell
✕You build the analysis, deck, and minutes yourself
✕40+ hours, and still hard to defend
EP
ExemptPay
CUSTOM ANALYSIS · PACKAGED DELIVERABLES
✓Thousands of peer records distilled per role
✓Market Composite model, mean, trimmed mean & median, winsorized for outliers
✓Full P10–P90 range, compa-ratio, and position-in-range
✓The statistical N shown on every benchmark
✓§4958 checklist and board discussion language included
✓Board-ready in minutes
Strong benchmark · 300 records · 295 orgs
Adequate · 41 records · 12 orgs

We show our work, including the sample size.

Most consultants hand your board a number and ask it to trust them. ExemptPay prints the statistical N on every benchmark and tiers each one, Strong, Adequate, or Supplementary, so the board sees the weight behind the figure, not just the figure. We built what we wished we’d had in that meeting.

What you get

One document, your board’s complete compensation record.

Not a spreadsheet to decipher. A board-ready file that benchmarks every leader your 990 reports, officers, key employees, and staff paid over $100K, not just the person at the top.

01
Executive Summary
Compa-ratios, traffic-light signals, and the exact dollar gap to range, on one page, at a glance.
02
Market Findings Table
Per role: current vs. P25/P50/P75, compa-ratio, position-in-range, sample size, and data quality.
03
Position Detail Pages
P10–P90 distribution, pay markers, multi-year trend, and the peer group used, one page per role.
04
§4958 Checklist
The three-prong rebuttable-presumption framework with fillable fields for date, voting members, and conflicts.
05
Board Discussion Language
Pre-written, variance-calibrated paragraphs your secretary copies straight into the minutes.
06
Methodology & Peer Group
Transparent data sources, peer-matching criteria, and quality tiers, auditable end to end.
What you hand your board

Not a data dump. A meeting in a box.

Every report hands your board a defensible file, the benchmarks, the discussion language, and the §4958 checklist, in one PDF. Step up to the Governance Report and it’s a meeting in a box: a ready-to-present PowerPoint and a full facilitation guide, all populated with your numbers.

Board presentation · PPTX$249 report
RIVERBEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION · SAMPLE
Chief Financial Officer
Current
$258,000
Target P50
$211,000
Compa-ratio
122%
Above target · Justification required
“Compensation for this position exceeds the market target (CR 122%). Explicit board rationale and documentation are required to maintain IRS defensibility under IRC §4958…”
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Discussion guide · Word$249 report
Board Compensation Discussion Guide
CONFIDENTIAL · PREPARED FOR THE BOARD
Meeting Opening Script
“Thank you for making time for this compensation review. As a board, we have a fiduciary obligation to ensure our pay practices are reasonable, well-documented, and aligned with our stated philosophy. Today we’ll review market data for each position and confirm we meet the rebuttable-presumption standard…”
Verbatim script · edit to taste
Compliance checklist · §4958Every report
Rebuttable Presumption Checklist
✓
Independent body approval
Authorized, conflict-free committee
✓
Appropriate comparability data
This report, sourced & sized
Contemporaneous documentation
Recorded in your minutes
Meeting date
Voting members
Conflicts noted
Who it’s for

Different seat at the table. Same defensible data.

Boards & committees
Walk into the comp review with independent benchmarks and minutes-ready language. Set a new hire's pay, defend the current one, or answer a 990 question, with a record that holds up.
Funders & foundations
Review a grantee's executive pay before, or during, the relationship. Or hand the report to a grantee as a no-cost gift that helps them get governance right.
Compensation consultants
The data layer under your engagement, or a fast, affordable first deliverable for clients who can't fund a full study. Keep the relationship; add the depth later.
vs. the alternatives

Board-grade data, without the board-grade invoice.

Compensation Consultant
$5,000–$15,000
4–8 weeks
ExemptPay Report
$149–$249
Minutes
DIY (990s + spreadsheets)
Free
40+ hours
How it works

From EIN to board-ready in three steps.

1
Set up your organization
Enter your EIN and we auto-fill the rest. Choose your peer group by mission area, budget size, and geography.
2
Add the positions
Search millions of compensation records to match every role your 990 reports, the CEO and everyone over the threshold.
3
Generate the report
Percentile benchmarks, variance signals, and board-ready documentation, populated with your numbers, in minutes.
Pricing

One-time. No subscription.

Less than the cost of a single consultant hour.

Board Confidence Report
$149one-time
Everything your board needs to review compensation, in one document.
✓Up to 5 executive positions
✓Full percentile breakdown (P10–P90)
✓Market findings with traffic-light signals
✓Board discussion language for minutes
✓Rebuttable presumption checklist (§4958)
✓Print + CSV export
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BEST VALUE
Compensation Governance Report
$249one-time
Full report plus presentation-ready deliverables for your board meeting.
Everything in Board Confidence, plus:
✓Up to 10 executive positions
✓Board presentation (PowerPoint)
✓Discussion guide (Word document)
✓Compensation trend analysis
✓5 regenerations (30-day window)
✓Print + CSV export
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Questions

Before you ask.

Why not just use Candid, ProPublica, or the IRS site?+
Those hand you one organization's filing at a time. ExemptPay turns thousands of them into a peer benchmark, with percentiles, compa-ratios, sample sizes, and the documentation. You're paying for the analysis, not the raw data.
Is this legal or tax advice?+
No. ExemptPay provides independent comparability data and documentation to support your board and its advisors. It is not legal, tax, accounting, or audit advice, and we're not your attorney, CPA, or auditor, we give them exactly what they need to do their jobs.
How current is the data?+
It's built on the most recent IRS Form 990 filings available. Because each nonprofit sets its own fiscal year and the IRS posts filings on a lag, these are blended national figures across all filers rather than a single fiscal or calendar year.
What if our peer group is too small?+
Every benchmark shows its sample size, N and organization count, and a quality tier. When a peer group is widened to reach statistical adequacy, the report tells you, so you always see what was included.
Who can we benchmark?+
Any role your 990 discloses, officers, key employees, and staff paid over roughly $100K. Up to 5 positions on the $149 report, up to 10 on the $249.
Do we have to subscribe?+
No. Every report is a one-time purchase. Buy one when you need it, and save an annual snapshot to compare year over year.
For consultants

Become the affordable answer for clients who can’t fund a full study.

Use ExemptPay as your peer-data engine, or resell it as an entry-tier deliverable and grow the engagement from there. White-label is on the roadmap, tell us you want it.

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