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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Berkeley Herbal Center

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 141975183
CA · NTEE B30
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Ashley Campos, Executive Director / CEO ($91,616) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 63 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 54th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Ashley Campos — reported title “EXEC DIRECTO”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

63 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 63 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$1,981 total compensation of comparable organizations → $205,858 $91,616
$33,07810th
$48,69825th
$88,964Median
$114,48975th
$152,61490th
$91,616This org · 54th
p10$33,078
p25$48,698
p50$88,964
p75$114,489
p90$152,614
$91,616

Comparable organizations

Each figure is Form 990 Part VII columns D + F (reportable pay plus other compensation and benefits; column F may include amounts from related organizations), normalized to CA cost of living (BEA RPP, 2023) and to its filing year (CPI-U); the reported amount is on each linked 990.

OrganizationStateRevenueMatched titleComp
(reported)
Comp
(adjusted)
FY
Total Beauty Institute FL$465,191 President $51,269 $55,777 2024
Bell Tech Career Institute TX$452,245 Trustee $81,816 $94,779 2024
Chedvas Bais Yaakov OH$451,871 Trustee $49,756 $61,030 2024
Restore Texas Ministries TX$449,381 Ceo $68,624 $81,845 2023
Friends Of Amateur Rocketry Inc CA$485,160 President $8,532 $8,784 2023
Ironworkers Local #12 Education And NY$434,499 Trustee $75,954 $79,483 2024
Montana Iec Education MT$487,047 School Admin $72,336 $90,300 2024
Plumbers & Steamfitters Local 568 Appren MS$433,287 Former Union Trustee $49,040 $63,252 2024
Aim Inc - Ambitious Imaginative Motivated NJ$488,357 Director Ceo $57,890 $59,857 2024
Regional Training Institute Inc AL$489,416 Director Of Education $38,540 $49,642 2023
Chicago School Of Violin Making Inc IL$427,305 Executive Director $95,699 $108,956 2024
Plumbing-heating-cooling Contractors Academy Of San Diego CA$497,446 Cheif Executive Officer $30,720 $31,627 2023
Wisconsin Education Innovations Inc WI$421,906 Executive Director $57,720 $69,810 2024
Journi Incorporated MI$500,222 Chief Executive Officer $96,427 $115,262 2024
Northeast Iowa Ironworkers IA$413,362 Trustee Alte $9,513 $11,752 2025
Unite Here Local 54 Training & NJ$406,192 Chairperson/union Trustee $28,157 $29,974 2023
Open Roads Academy Inc CA$530,969 Secretary $60,000 $60,000 2024
Iowa State Trowel Trades Apprentice IA$385,735 Trustee $102,959 $130,554 2024
York Community Resource Center PA$540,353 Executive Director $114,544 $128,873 2025
York Electrical Institute PA$540,839 Training Director $141,313 $158,991 2025
Cast Metals Institute IL$540,912 Chief Executive Officer $35,509 $41,622 2023
Rise Program Inc OK$543,737 Executive Di $84,423 $107,656 2024
Memphis Plumbers Joint Apprenticeship Committee TN$544,247 Training Director $64,720 $78,783 2024
Spirit Of Aloha Outreaches HI$375,679 President $102,291 $109,191 2023
International Association Of Bridge IN$547,878 Coordinator $162,126 $197,998 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to CA cost of living and 2024 dollars. Click any organization to verify the figure on ProPublica.

Methodology

Comparable organizations were drawn from electronically filed IRS Form 990 returns and matched on sector (NTEE code), budget (a size-adaptive revenue band that tightens as the organization grows), and geography (same-state first, broadening only when too few peers qualify); every organization within the band forms the peer set. To compare fairly across regions and years, peer compensation is normalized to CA cost of living (BEA Regional Price Parities, 2023) and to the subject's filing year (CPI-U). The figure benchmarked is Form 990 Part VII, Section A, columns D + F — reportable pay plus other compensation, benefits, and deferred amounts (column F may include amounts from related organizations) — with the chief executive matched by role. Related-organization amounts (column E) and institutional trustees are excluded. Full methodology: peerbasis.org/methodology.

Sample, role match & sensitivity

Sensitivity — the subject's percentile under alternative compensation definitions:

BasisSubject percentile
Total compensation (D + F), cost-of-living + inflation adjusted — the PeerBasis default54th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)65th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted57th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted44th

If the percentile moves materially across these definitions, the result is sensitive to methodology choices, and the board should weigh which basis best fits its facts.

Rebuttable presumption of reasonableness · 26 CFR 53.4958-6

Compensation paid by a tax-exempt organization is presumed reasonable — shifting the burden to the IRS — when three requirements are met. This report supplies the comparability data for the second. The board should record the following in its minutes concurrently with its decision:

Draft board minutes — executive compensation

  1. The compensation of the Executive Director / CEO (Ashley Campos) was approved in advance by [the Board / Compensation Committee], composed of members with no conflict of interest with respect to the arrangement.
  2. Prior to its determination, the authorized body obtained and relied upon appropriate comparability data, namely the PeerBasis Compensation Comparability Determination dated June 9, 2026, comparing compensation against 63 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (B30), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $91,616 is reasonable (approximately the 54th percentile of comparable organizations) and documented the basis for this determination concurrently, on [date], by a vote of [__ for / __ against].

Sources: IRS Form 990 e-file data (apps.irs.gov); IRS Business Master File (NTEE classification). Every figure traces to an original public filing — click any organization above to verify it on ProPublica. PeerBasis is a service of Prismind Analytics; its methodology is published, was commissioned for independent adversarial review, and discloses its own limitations. This report is comparability data to support a board's good-faith determination under IRC 4958; it is not legal or tax advice. Generated by PeerBasis on June 9, 2026.