I see this quite often here (esp in the foreign business community in Japan) - people asking for huge skill sets but not willing to pay for someone with that range of skills.

So they hire someone who is willing to work for that amount of money - but doesn't have the skills - and things don't get done well and a more expensive solution has to be brought it down the line.

Non-profit or not - you have to be realistic about standards and paying for them if you want your company or organization to succeed.

I was mystified when I moved to the UK 7 years ago and started looking in the local press (South-East) for jobs. For £12,000 p.a. they wanted someone with at least one primary degree, 2+ langauges, experience of running a small office, hiring & managing staff....it went on and on.
When I looked in the national press it was clear that if you weren't willing to commute into London every-day you simply could not get the bucks.
The bizarre thing is many of those jobs could be remotely worked (the first one I applied to is mainly based at home but with London salary, phew!) with all of the huge advantages in cost savings, the environment, staff motivation etc., but the culture here still finds remote-working very threatening.

For the first year my nervy manager would ring at odd times, or send an e-mail for reply ASAP etc., etc., until she realised that "it's about output, stoopid!"

Wilder, the same thing happens here. Those of us who choose to chase the more relaxed lifestyle of a smaller centre have to either settle for a lot less money or spend three hours a day commuting (I chose the latter). There are literally thousands who make the same trek as I do every morning and evening when we could probably be located in our own city at a much lower cost to our employers and our sanity. I guess energy isn't dear enough yet to break the mentality that everyone over a certain level in the government must work in the capital city. I'm hoping that the demographics in our workforce (80% of our department is due for retirement in the next five years) will see a change in that attitude before too long. Not holding my breath, though.

That's my job and only very slightly less than my salary. In addition to all those things, I also do all the graphic design, HR, occasionally teach, help out in the gift shop and so on. Now, I live in the city with the highest cost of living and the lowest salaries in North Carolina - what drives this kind of travesty, at least in Asheville, is that everyone wants to live here. So they're willing to make ridiculous sacrifices in order to do so. I get hundreds of resumes every time we have an opening and they're often people who are leaving lucrative jobs in other cities to enjoy the "laid back mountain lifestyle". Of course what with all these flocks of emigrants we're rapidly killing off that lifestyle, but that's another story.

Nonprofits seem to assume that you're part of a two income family or you're willing to wait tables at night; no, you can't support yourself on these salaries alone but if your SO has a decent job, it's a lot easier. It's not a coincidence that I'm about the only single person I know who works for museums and nonprofits.