HOW MUCH ARE CHARITY, FUNDRAISING, NGO AND NON-PROFITS CURRENTLY PAYING THEIR NEW STAFF?

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This article explores current salary levels and some other related questions using public recruitment data from the CharityJobs website. According to CharityJob, the site is the United Kingdom's busiest one for charity, fundraising, NGO and not for profit jobs. Data collection took place between 4 September and 20 November 2016 with some basic techniques of web scraping (web harvesting or web data extraction), which is a computer software technique of extracting information from websites. All the process is documented at: https://rpubs.com/EduardoWF/charityjobs. The source code in RMarkdown is available for download following GNU General Public License. Everything was prepared with the open-source and freely-accesible statistical computing software R (R version 3.2.0 - http://cran.r-project.org/) and the IDE RStudio (Version 0.99.441 - http://www.rstudio.com/). In addition to presenting these powerful tools and data-exploring techniques, I hope that this article can help the public, specially applicants and workers in civil-society organisations to get an update on salaries and trends in the sector. The jobs analysed here are mostly UK-based ones and published by UK-based organisations. Therefore, the results are not meant to represent the entire sector worldwide. I still hope though that this analysis can provide some positive contribuition to the evolution of work of civil-society organisation in both the southern and the northern hemispheres. This post is based on public data, is my sole responsibility and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of CharityJobs' staff.