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QUESTION:  When comparing the same job using the same area, industry, and organization size in the Executive Compensation Assessor (XA) and Nonprofit Comparables Assessor (CA), why are the results different?

 

The Executive Compensation Assessor and Nonprofit Comparables Assessor use completely different databases. 

 

The Executive Compensation Assessor shows smoothed analytical relationships between hundreds of survey sources, adjusted every quarter. The Executive Compensation Assessor only displays dots from 2-digit through 4-digit eSICs, but bases predictions on the overall trend from years of quarterly updates from all sources, including private firms we survey whose dots do not show up in the product.  

 

The Nonprofit Comparables Assessor is a specific sampling of clearly identifiable observations where the results come exclusively from the dots shown, with no smoothing of analyses.  So, any change in search parameters will completely yield different numbers.  Results can vary dramatically from quarter to quarter as newer Forms 990 and proxies are filed.