This is a good time to review the salary and benefits you are offering. Particularly if one person has held the position for an extended time, the salary and benefits may no longer be competitive. It is important to have a competitive salary and benefits to attract and retain a candidate with qualities you desire. Compare what you have been paying your current executive director or staff member, or what you are considering offering your new hire, to what other legal aid programs may be paying. Pay particular attention to those programs which are similarly situated to yours in region, size, urban/rural and other demographics, experience of staff, and so on. MIE periodically conducts executive director salary surveys, available in the MIE e-library, and other organizations have conducted salary surveys of other staff members.