Nonprofit Variable Pay

Congratulations!

You have completed ERI DLC Course 72: Nonprofit Variable Pay.

You should now be able to:

  • Recognize how the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and Intermediate Sanctions impact nonprofit pay
  • Define private inurement, excess benefit transaction, and reasonable compensation
  • Specify the conditions required to establish a safe harbor for reasonable compensation
  • Identify the persons subject to reasonable compensation regulations
  • Recognize the reasons for having variable pay in the organization
  • Differentiate between different variable pay plans such as STIP, LTIP, recognition awards, and bonuses
  • Identify performance measures and how they relate to outcomes at the individual, group, and organization-wide levels
  • Recognize different types of reward structures such as add-on pay, at-risk pay, and base pay at risk
  • Define threshold, on target, and maximum payout
  • Specify how to design a variable pay plan with targeted financial or management by objectives performance measures
  • Differentiate between nonqualified deferred pay plans such as deferred bonuses, vested trusts, rabbi trusts, and secular trusts