salary comparison non-profit executive director
General Executive Director Salary. According to a 2011 survey by Watkins Uiberall sampling exclusively from 286 nonprofits based in Tennessee and neighboring counties in other states, nonprofit executive directors earned a median salary of between $50,000 and $75,000 annually.tatistics from 2008 used in a 2010 analysis by Charity Navigator indicate that charities dealing with education paid their CEOs the most, with a median salary of $272,645. Executive directors earned the lowest median pay of $90,000 per year when working at nonprofits with a religious focus.