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Filing year 2023

California Employment Lawyers Assn

Woodland Hills, California·EIN 33-0523044·NTEE S41 · Community Improvement & Capacity Building·6
Total revenue
$1.7M
Total assets
$1.6M
Total expenses
$1.2M
Reported officers
18
Mission

CELA EXISTS TO PROTECT AND EXPAND THE LEGAL RIGHTS AND OPPORTUNITIES OF ALL CALIFORNIA WORKERS AND TO STRENGTHEN THE COMMUNITY OF LAWYERS WHO REPRESENT THEM. WE ACCOMPLISH THIS THROUGH EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY FOR WORKER JUSTICE.

Executive compensation

Form 990 · Schedule J · 1 reported individual · Filing year 2023

Admin Director
director (operational)
$130k
$143k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 17 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Community Improvement & Capacity Building

Up 10%
from 2022

From $118k in 2022 to $130k in 2023.

$118k
2022
$130k
2023
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 7% in real terms$134k to $143k

Estimated with Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.
Financial trend

Revenue and expenses over time

California Employment Lawyers Assn reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$1.3M
$1.2M
2022
$1.7M
$1.2M
2023
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Community Improvement & Capacity Building executives earn in California

Comparable community improvement & capacity building organizations in California pay their highest-earning executive a median of $95,054.

25th percentile
$42k
Median
$95,054
75th percentile
$159k
90th percentile
$256k

These are community improvement & capacity building sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 255 organizations across 255 filings (2021 – 2023).

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