Comments on: Community Manager Compensation Study

By: Community Managers: How much money should they make? at Fast Wonder: Online Community Consulting

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:55:58 +0000

[...] recap last year’s results, you can read my take on why the data looks nothing like a typical salary bell [...]

By: Krist Eclectic » Blog Archive » Community Manager Salaries

Krist Eclectic » Blog Archive » Community Manager Salaries — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:20:32 +0000

[...] Online Community: Compensation Study Online Community Compensation: Salaries By Region Community Manager Compensation Study [...]

By: Damascus

Damascus — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:46:39 +0000

We’ve made several community mangement requests for proposals to manage our 138 unit (60 townhomes vs 78 single family units) in Damascus, MD. The median and average management price quoted is $20 per unit per month. Having said that, our HOA does not have all the usual services. We don’t have trash pickup or any other services. We only have some sidewalk area in part of the townhome area and some road area in one block that we maintain. Also some common area grass cutting. Our snow plow contract is about $2000 annually; and grass cutting $8500. We hold a monthly board meeting and have no other facilities. The typical “full service” contract falls into the range of $12000 annually. For financial management only, we have had estimates and contracts in the $3500 – $6000 range.
We have had terrible luck with community manangers and board of director immaturity.

By: mediaChick

mediaChick — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:10:38 +0000

Yet another informative, relative post I am bookmarking. Thanks Dawn!

By: Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 02 » Silicon Florist

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:57:29 +0000

[...] Community Manager Compensation Study Dawn Foster writes “I’ve mentioned before about how great it is that ForumOne does focused, relevant, and interesting research on the online community market, and their most recent report is no exception. They just released the Online Community Compensation Study results a week ago. Since I participated in the study, I was able to get a free copy of the entire report, but Bill does a great job of summarizing the key points in his blog post.” [...]

By: Dawn

Dawn — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:56:41 +0000

Jmartens, As I mentioned in the post, the link to Bill's original post contains more information about the demographics. In answer to your question: 225 responses Female (55%) and Male (45%) 47% have more than 5 years of experience managing communities. More details can be found in Bill's post

By: Dawn

Dawn — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:49:59 +0000

Maggie,

I think you’re right. I expect that a lot of this has to do with the broad definition of the community manager role. I will be curious to see if the role starts to get better defined and broken up into more distinct job titles over time. On the other hand, this might be one of those job descriptions, like evangelist or program manager, that means something completely different to each person holding the position. I tend to think that some of the lower level titles will shake out (moderator, etc.), while community manager continues to be nebulous. However, at this point, I’m not sure how this will turn out.

I don’t think I’ll be attending the October conference. I have friends coming from out of town that week staying with me. I’ll be interested to read the blog posts that come out of the conference!

By: Jmartens

Jmartens — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:45:37 +0000

For the men vs women comparrison, i think we need to know how many men and how many women are in the dataset. Also need to know average years of experience.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:00:06 +0000

I participated in this study as well and was shocked to not see the bell curve. It did make me wonder whether the study had received the “right” participants and whether everyone’s considering themselves a community manager today and whether the definition is still too broad. I wonder if we’ll discuss at any length at the October conference in Sonoma. Will you be there?