How are Turning Point USA staff salaries distributed by role and seniority?
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Executive summary
Available public salary-data aggregators show wide, inconsistent ranges for Turning Point USA staff pay: Glassdoor reports role-level medians such as about $49,329 for a Field Representative and up to $68,500 for an Administrator based on user submissions (Glassdoor, 86–179 entries) [1] [2]. Salary.com and Payscale provide substantially different organization-level averages — Salary.com lists overall averages near $80–82k [3] [4], while PayScale lists roughly $54k [5] — indicating major variance across data sources and roles [3] [5] [4].
1. What the numbers say: conflicting portraits from public aggregators
Glassdoor’s job-posting and user-submitted salary pages for Turning Point USA show role-level entries — examples include a Field Representative figure cited at roughly $49,329 per year in some Glassdoor pages and elsewhere a Field Representative average reported at ~$83,488 in a different Glassdoor listing, reflecting internal inconsistencies across listings and sample sizes [1] [6] [2]. Indeed’s salary pages show hourly figures clustered near $18.97–$24 and yearly ranges for junior roles (for example, an Administrator or various interns) that are far below Salary.com’s organization-wide averages, underlining that platform methodology and which jobs contributors report shape the picture [7] [8].
2. Mid- and senior-level pay: salary-comparison services show higher averages
Salary.com presents an organizational average in the low $80,000s — for “Turning Point Usa” one page lists $81,628 average and typical ranges roughly $71,626–$93,226 [3]. A related Salary.com listing for “Turning Point” shows a very similar average near $80,938 [4]. Those figures imply that administrators, managers and program leads are paid in the tens of thousands to low six-figure band, but Salary.com does not, in these snippets, break down many discrete titles beyond aggregate ranges [3] [4].
3. Entry-level and field staff: lower reported pay, but numbers vary by source
Indeed and Glassdoor entries for front-line roles report much lower hourly and annual pay. Indeed lists administrators and interns with hourly averages around $18.97 and shows hourly ranges for roles such as Facilities Manager at ~$16.97 up to ~$24.10 for sales-type roles [7]. Glassdoor’s multiple pages show conflicting Field Representative figures — one page lists ~$49k and another shows a Field Representative average of ~$83k with a wide percentile spread — signaling sample-size and reporting-method issues [2] [6].
4. Executive pay and watchdog reporting: limited but notable coverage
Independent blogs and watchdog-style posts have discussed executive compensation for Turning Point USA leadership; Paddock Post’s write-ups reference executive-pay figures and commentaries, including a recent piece noting a CEO-level salary “near $400,000” in one summary [9] [10]. These sources are opinionated aggregations rather than primary IRS filings; ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer is available to retrieve IRS Form 990 data on executive compensation [11], but the current search results do not include a direct Form 990 extract for Turning Point USA in the provided snippets [11].
5. Why the sources disagree: sample bias, different employers, and labeling
The divergence traces to three problems visible in the record: crowd-sourced platforms like Glassdoor and Indeed rely on voluntary reporting from employees and can oversample particular job bands or locations [1] [7]; salary-aggregator firms (Salary.com, PayScale) use modeling and market benchmarks that produce higher organization-level averages and different ranges [3] [5]; and nomenclature ambiguity — the organization operates multiple affiliates (Turning Point Action, Turning Point Endowment, etc.), and some data pages appear to conflate similarly named entities or mix listings for the parent and subsidiaries, which skews averages [12] [3].
6. What’s missing from this record and how to verify further
Available sources do not include a current, consolidated Form 990 or an authoritative, itemized payroll list in the provided snippets; ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer can supply IRS filings but the present search results don’t show a pulled Form 990 with line‑by‑line salaries [11]. To verify exact distributions by role and seniority, obtain the organization’s latest IRS Form 990 (executive compensation schedules) or personnel rosters with job grades, then triangulate those with raw payroll/benefits data and internal banding documents — documents not found in the current reporting [11].
7. Bottom line: can you infer a salary distribution?
You can infer that entry-level and intern roles tend to appear in the low-to-mid $20/hour or sub-$50k range in some user-reported pages while administrative, mid‑management and executive roles are reflected in higher averages ($70–90k and up on Salary.com and possibly higher for senior executives) [7] [3] [4]. However, available sources disagree substantially and sometimes contradict each other for the same job titles, so any precise distribution requires primary tax filings or internal payroll records not present in the provided results [1] [2] [6].
Limitations: this analysis uses only the provided aggregator pages, job postings and commentary; authoritative IRS Form 990 details and an internal compensation banding schedule are not included in the supplied snippets [11] [9].