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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Oklahoma Business Ethics Consortium

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 201572005
OK · NTEE S41
FY ending 2024-09-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Mary Lytle, Executive Director / CEO ($79,020) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 528 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 66th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Mary Lytle — reported title “EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

528 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 528 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$1 total compensation of comparable organizations → $385,654 $79,020
$15,53510th
$41,06325th
$65,628Median
$91,18175th
$126,25190th
$79,020This org · 66th
p10$15,535
p25$41,063
p50$65,628
p75$91,181
p90$126,251
$79,020

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 OK 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
Franklin County Home Builders NC$272,652 Executive Di $2,115 $2,043 2023
Sunnyvale Downtown Association CA$272,720 Executive Director $110,000 $88,809 2023
Society Of Publication Designers Inc NY$272,523 Executive Director $100,000 $82,063 2024
Cactus & Pine Golf Course Superintendents Association AZ$272,346 Executive Director $80,810 $70,579 2024
Truckers Service Association TX$273,129 President $1,500 $1,363 2024
Latino Hotel Association NM$272,041 President And Ceo $7,600 $7,423 2024
The Medical Staff Of The Riverside CA$273,358 President $36,000 $28,231 2024
Main Street Business Improvement CA$271,407 Exdir/secty/trs $69,088 $54,178 2024
Florida Association For Pupil FL$271,344 Exec Dir $18,326 $15,635 2024
Massachusetts Recreation And Park Associ MA$271,320 Executive Director $70,270 $55,868 2025
Charlottesville Business Innovation VA$274,073 Executive Director $76,667 $67,226 2024
Prosser Chamber Of Commerce WA$274,312 Executive Dir. $41,181 $33,483 2024
International Credit Union Regulators Network Inc WI$274,351 Executive Director $123,006 $120,110 2023
Quad Cities Foundation For Fair IL$274,541 Manager $129,654 $115,758 2024
Handle District Corporation CA$270,499 Executive Dir. $71,444 $57,680 2023
Interstate 70 Mountain Corridor CO$270,375 Director $88,480 $77,049 2024
Professional Travel Agents Of North VA$275,101 Treasurer $4,200 $3,683 2024
Pueblo West Chamber Of Commerce CO$275,151 Executive Director $27,738 $24,868 2023
Theatre Owners Of Mid-america TX$269,538 Executive Director $52,684 $49,274 2023
International Association For Colon AZ$269,488 Executive Dir. $48,000 $41,923 2024
Fulton County Economic Development OH$276,024 Executive Di $17,308 $16,219 2025
American Association Of Corporate Optometrists GA$276,603 Executive Director $57,200 $53,774 2023
San Juan Island Chamber Of Commerce WA$276,774 Executive Di $99,484 $80,888 2024
Sheet Metal Contractors Assoc Of Central And Southern Nj NJ$268,411 Chapter Executive $41,207 $34,399 2023
Carolina Fintech Hub NC$277,388 President $250,000 $241,520 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to OK 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 OK 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 default66th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)57th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted68th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted63rd

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 (Mary Lytle) 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 528 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (S41), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $79,020 is reasonable (approximately the 66th 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.