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Tip of the Week: Animal Welfare Turnover Rate
June 10, 2024, The Association
How do your organization’s numbers stack up against the profession as a whole?
When a member of The Association inquired in our online community about the average employee turnover rate in animal shelters, we had the answer in just a few clicks.
And according to The Association’s latest Compensation & Benefits Benchmarking Study, it’s good news. While the previous study reported higher turnover rates, perhaps in alignment with the Great Resignation of 2021, the 2023 numbers reflect a decrease in turnover rates. The median turnover rate has come down from 38% to the current national average of about 33%, while the turnover rate at the 75th percentile is 51.6%, down from 56.5.
How does your organization stack up?
This statistic and other high-level data can be found in the Compensation & Benefits Benchmarking Study Executive Summary. Members of The Association get a complimentary copy—here’s a direct link to access it; once you sign into your account, you’ll see the cost zeroed out.
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The Humane Society of Sarasota County is currently participating in your compensation data survey. However, we have a timely need and are hoping for some resources, which we would gladly purchase. Over the past 12 months, our turnover rate is increasing from voluntary turnover. Employees are leaving for better wages, better opportunities, moving etc. While we have made numerous wage increases across the organization, increased benefits and added professional development opportunities, we are still struggling with retention.
We are a medium sized, brick and mortar, 501c3 nonprofit humane society without a government contract. 52 FTE. Annual operating budget of $6,000,000. About 3,000 lives saved a year.
Would you be able to isolate turnover rates within our category and provide data to us on this? We are looking for 2024 stats of some kind, is possible.
Sincere appreciation in advance for anything you can provide.
We’re thrilled The Humane Society of Sarasota County is participating in our Compensation Study. The data we’re collecting currently is for calendar year 2024, and the results will become available in late May/early June. Those results are FREE to organizations who complete 80% of their data set, and available for purchase to those organizations who don’t reach that completion threshold.
That said, it sounds like your need may be time-sensitive, in which case I’d point you to this report from the National Council of Nonprofits: https://www.nonprofitimpactmatters.org/data/state-nonprofit-data/