International Rescue Committee reviews

Complete lack of pay transparency. Difficult to build a long term career working with clients because you are not one of the privileged working at headquarters making $80,000 or more doing far less emotionally stressful work. People at other field offices may be paid much more than you and there is no reason why. HR is unsympathetic and basically tells us to be grateful we have jobs. Managers blame HR and say their hands are tied, but we all know managers can apply for exceptions and go the bat for you but most never will.

As with many non-profits, the pay rates are horrible for the amount of work and stress and time that you put into the job. You give a lot of yourself mentally and emotionally for a salary that barely pays bills in today's economy. While generally well-managed, the recent emergency response to the Afghanistan crisis was very poorly handled and the burden landed on the emergency hired employees to solve problems with little to no training.