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What is your volunteer program actually worth?
A defensible dollar figure you can show your board, calculated with the Independent Sector hourly rate. Takes about 30 seconds.
How this is calculated
Annual value = volunteers × hours each gives per year × the national hourly value of volunteer time. We use the 2024 Independent Sector, Value of Volunteer Time rate — $33.49 per hour, the most recent figure Independent Sector has published — the same citation researchers, journalists, and grant reports use, so a board member or funder can trace the number back to its source rather than taking your word for it.
Full-time equivalent (FTE) divides total volunteer hours by 2,080 hours/year (40 hours × 52 weeks — the US Bureau of Labor Statistics' standard work year), the usual way to translate volunteer contribution into a headcount comparison a board already understands.
Worked example
50 volunteers giving 50 hours a year each is 2,500 total hours. At $33.49/hour, that's $83,725 of delivered value a year — equivalent to 1.2 full-time staff positions.
What the result represents: a defensible, third-party-sourced estimate of the paid-labor equivalent of your volunteers' time — useful for board reports and grant applications, not an audited financial figure. Your numbers aren't saved unless you click Calculate, and we never share or sell them. Full methodology, including our benchmark survey sample →