Warning – shameless self-promotion follows.
We have just released a new report from the Indiana Nonprofit Sector Project, which highlights findings from our most recent analysis of nonprofit paid employment in Indiana, updating our previous statewide analysis to 2009.
Click here to see the Press Release for this study. A summary of the report is available at http://www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/inemploy/innonprofitemploy09.htm. The complete report can be read online at http://www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/inemploy/indianaempl09.pdf.
I hope you find the report of interest and encourage you to distribute the findings as widely as you think appropriate and useful.
Here are some of our key findings:
· The nonprofit sector continues to be a major economic force in Indiana, accounting for nearly 1 out of every 11 paid workers in 2009, up from 1 in 12 in 2009. This is more than twice the number of construction or wholesale trade workers. It also exceeds the number of workers in the accommodation and food industry.
· Nonprofit employment grew by 5.9 percent between 2005 and 2009, while overall employment fell 5.9 percent and for-profit employment declined by 8.6 percent.
· Nonprofit employment growth was concentrated in the health and education industries (up 9.6 and 4.8 percent respectively), while nonprofit employment decreased for arts, entertainment and recreation, social assistance, and membership associations
· Nonprofit payroll grew by 7.5 percent, more rapidly than nonprofit employment (5.9 percent), despite a decrease in total payroll for the state (down 7.5 percent). The overall increase in nonprofit payroll was driven mainly by education and health care; nonprofit payroll decreased in social assistance and arts, entertainment and recreation.
· Nonprofit average annual wages increased from 2005 to 2009 by 5.1 percent (adjusted for inflation) while for-profit average annual wages decreased by 2.7 percent. Nonprofit average annual wages grew the most in education (6.7 percent), membership organizations (5.1 percent) and health (3.2 percent), held steady in social assistance, and actually declined in arts, entertainment and recreation (-3.1 percent).
· The wage gap between nonprofit and for-profit employees has been reduced by half since 2005. For-profit employees had annual wages 12.5 percent higher than nonprofit employees in 2005; this gap was only 6 percent in 2009.
Kirsten
Kirsten A. Grønbjerg
Efroymson Chair in Philanthropy
Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University
Chair: Governance and Management Faculty
School of Public & Environmental Affairs
SPEA, Room 419, Indiana University
1315 E. 10th Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
(812) 855-5971; fax: (812)-855-7802
kgronbj@indiana.edu
http://www.spea.indiana.edu/gronbjerg/