A chief responsibility of boards of trustees is to select, nurture, evaluate, and compensate the president/CEO/head of school. A successful partnership leads to satisfied, longer serving presidents/heads, which in turn leads to greater mission fulfillment.

Mission & Data’s executive compensation consultative process is designed to provide both the board and president/head with robust comparability data and explore various components of compensation, some of which are highly complex and often overlooked. Mission & Data will guide the board through steps to establish the IRS’s rebuttable presumption of reasonableness of the president/head’s compensation, necessary under Section 4958 of the IRS’s Internal Revenue Code. In this process, we serve as an independent compensation consultant and facilitator of the contract renewal process, and we advise boards making first contract offers to newly selected presidents/heads.

Mission & Data offers executive compensation services to associations and other nonprofits determining the compensation for their senior leader.