Nonprofit turnover lower than for-profit

The average job turnover rate among nonprofit employers is 21 percent, less than half the average for private industry, a new study says.

The share of employees leaving private firms was nearly 45 percent in 2006, according to U.S. Department of Labor statistics, more than twice the 21 percent nonprofit turnover rate measured by online job site Opportunity Knocks in 2007.

Full-text article via Philanthropy Journal, 3.5.08.