About ExemptPay

Every nonprofit board faces the same question: Are we paying our people fairly?

The answer usually means hiring a compensation consultant ($5,000–$15,000), waiting weeks, and hoping the data is current. For organizations stewarding donor dollars, that's hard to justify, especially when the IRS expects documented compensation reasonableness every time you set executive pay.

ExemptPay was built to fix that.

What We Do

ExemptPay generates board-ready compensation reports powered by 3.27 million salary records from over 330,000 nonprofit organizations , sourced from public IRS Form 990 filings and Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

Enter your EIN. Select positions. Get a professional report with percentile benchmarks, market composite analysis, and IRS rebuttable presumption documentation, in minutes, not weeks.

Who Built This

ExemptPay was created by Tom, a nonprofit executive with over 30 years leading operations, technology, and systems across government, nonprofit, and SaaS, including CIO-level roles at organizations managing many tens of millions in program funding.

After years of watching boards either overpay consultants for data that should be accessible, or skip the process entirely and hope the IRS never asked, he built ExemptPay to make rigorous compensation analysis available to every nonprofit, not just the ones with consulting budgets.

Why You Can Trust Our Data

• 1.Public, verifiable sources. Every data point comes from IRS Form 990 filings (public record) and Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational data. No proprietary surveys. No black boxes.
• 2.3.27 million compensation records across 330,000+ organizations in all 50 states, all mission types, all budget sizes.
• 3.Statistical rigor. Our Market Composite methodology blends mean, trimmed mean, and median calculations with sample size weighting and confidence indicators. We show our math.
• 4.Structured for board governance. Reports follow the IRC Section 4958 rebuttable presumption framework — the standard for documenting compensation reasonableness.

Who This Is For

• •Board members preparing for compensation committee decisions
• •Executive directors setting staff salaries with confidence
• •HR directors benchmarking positions against real nonprofit data
• •Auditors and advisors needing documented compensation comparability data

Our Commitment

Every nonprofit deserves access to rigorous, peer-matched compensation data. We keep pricing transparent and methodology open because trust isn't optional when you're helping organizations steward donor resources.