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

Transit Forward

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 873621242
TX · NTEE W40
FY ending 2023-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Bill Mccamley, Executive Director / CEO ($163,288) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 310 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 98th percentile of comparable organizationsabove the 90th percentile — board review recommended

Benchmarked executive: Bill Mccamley — reported title “Director”, selected as the organization's highest-paid individual — no exact title match, so confirm this is a comparable role.

How comparable organizations were selected

310 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 310 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$50 total compensation of comparable organizations → $585,081 $163,288
$4,84710th
$14,69025th
$36,644Median
$69,49675th
$101,55690th
$163,288This org · 98th
p10$4,847
p25$14,690
p50$36,644
p75$69,496
p90$101,556
$163,288

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 TX 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
Democracy 21 Education Fund DC$211,001 President & Ceo $61,849 $52,701 2024
Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group Inc WI$210,244 Director $13,534 $14,130 2023
Arise & Go CA$211,406 President $79,793 $66,904 2024
Hawaii Solar Energy Association Inc HI$211,932 Executive Director $120,000 $104,322 2024
The Cibolo Conservancy TX$209,504 Director Of Operations $24,000 $24,000 2023
Catawba Valley Leadership Foundation Inc NC$212,187 Foundation Director $42,375 $42,515 2024
Marsha Water Supply Corporation TX$212,265 President $32,435 $31,504 2024
Values To Action OR$208,951 Trustee $15,593 $14,061 2024
Sandy Springs Arts Foundation Inc GA$212,856 Foundation Mgr. $85,000 $82,988 2024
Nm Voters First NM$213,100 Executive Director $24,000 $25,064 2024
Shannon Leadership Institute MN$208,093 Executive Director (Through July 2024) $12,500 $11,993 2024
Western States Strategies OR$208,010 Executive Director $15,176 $13,685 2024
The South County News MI$207,769 President $14,245 $14,277 2024
Westacres Credit Union MI$213,738 Manager $22,086 $22,135 2024
New Americans Initiative KY$207,754 Director Of Operations $99,680 $103,988 2024
American Water Works Association AL$213,869 Section Executive Director $71,000 $74,480 2024
Peoples Foundation For Connecting Community Military & Veterans CA$207,511 Secretary $1,500 $1,295 2023
The Niwot Ditch Company CO$207,506 Secretary $2,500 $2,494 2022
Dtom 220 Foundation SD$207,188 Ceo, Chairman Of The Board $36,040 $39,763 2023
American Legion Morris Snuggerud Post Membership WI$207,094 3rd Vice Commandergm $51,688 $52,416 2024
Georgia Athletic Directors Association GA$214,748 Executive Director $6,000 $5,858 2024
Bold Leadership Network SC$206,208 Secretary $18,540 $19,336 2023
American Salvage Association Inc VA$205,849 Interim Executive Director $42,000 $40,540 2023
The Steel Horse Rally Inc AR$205,571 President $145,333 $158,625 2024
Mashup Nashville TN$205,448 Chief Executive Officer $18,960 $19,923 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to TX 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 TX 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 default98th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)98th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted98th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted95th

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 (Bill Mccamley) 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 310 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE major group (W), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $163,288 is reasonable (approximately the 98th 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.