Live preview — download the board-ready PDF to attach to your minutes.Download the free PDF
Email yourself a copy:
PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Metro Atlanta Seminary Inc

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 263420698
GA · NTEE X21
FY ending 2023-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Randall Schlichting, Executive Director / CEO ($14,048) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 32 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 3rd percentile of comparable organizationsbelow the typical range for comparable organizations

Benchmarked executive: Randall Schlichting — reported title “President/CEO”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

32 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 32 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$971 total compensation of comparable organizations → $206,041 $14,048
$23,40210th
$39,59625th
$78,338Median
$104,47175th
$121,15390th
$14,048This org · 3rd
p10$23,402
p25$39,596
p50$78,338
p75$104,471
p90$121,153
$14,048

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 GA 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
Great Exchange Inc GA$299,254 Director $70,000 $70,000 2023
Ministry Resource Network Inc GA$304,375 President $31,800 $30,888 2024
New Name Counseling And Teaching Center GA$292,448 President/executive Direct $125,000 $121,414 2024
Truth Tabernacle Of Praise Inc GA$282,011 Senior Pastor $96,250 $93,489 2024
Mount Zion Second Baptist Church GA$279,654 Custodian $15,818 $15,818 2023
Refiners House GA$322,813 President Ceo $41,905 $41,905 2023
Mission 1014 GA$277,169 President $93,236 $90,561 2024
Kathy Kinchen Ministries Inc GA$276,523 Treasurer $1,000 $971 2024
Jerry Vines Ministries Inc GA$262,000 Ceo $111,089 $107,902 2024
Vision Street Ministries Inc GA$346,018 President $95,000 $95,000 2023
Word Alive Ministries GA$350,553 President $81,000 $78,676 2024
L2l Inc GA$351,567 Metro Co-director $81,894 $81,894 2023
Sigi & David Oblander Ministries Inc GA$249,808 Vp Intnl Ministries And Treasurer $78,000 $78,000 2023
Essential2life Inc GA$249,619 Executive Director $110,250 $104,327 2025
Planting The Gospel Inc GA$247,698 Board Member $143,683 $139,561 2024
Christ Apostolic Church (Cac) Atlant GA$360,100 Pastor $118,800 $118,800 2023
Priority Insight Inc GA$236,113 Director $121,897 $118,400 2024
House Revival Ministries Inc GA$231,858 President $22,570 $22,570 2023
Northeast Taiwan Christian Association Inc GA$370,256 Director Chairman Contractor $42,000 $40,795 2024
International Biblical Training Inc GA$229,046 President $80,877 $80,877 2023
Greenview Madani Center Inc GA$224,036 Director $36,400 $35,356 2024
Leadership Revolution Inc GA$221,594 Executive Director Director $108,000 $104,901 2024
Cross Cultural Ministries Inc GA$210,799 President & Ceo $36,000 $34,967 2024
Larry Hutton Ministries GA$205,713 President $77,096 $77,096 2023
Walking With God Presbyterian GA$204,555 Pastor $46,500 $46,500 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to GA cost of living and 2023 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 GA 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 default3rd
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)3rd
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted9th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted3rd

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 (Randall Schlichting) 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 32 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (X21) + GA + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $14,048 is reasonable (approximately the 3rd 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.