Community liaison vs volunteer

The differences between community liaisons and volunteers can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 6-12 months to become both a community liaison and a volunteer. Additionally, a community liaison has an average salary of $39,899, which is higher than the $31,227 average annual salary of a volunteer.

The top three skills for a community liaison include patients, customer service and home health. The most important skills for a volunteer are child care, patient charts, and patient care.

Community liaison vs volunteer overview

	Community Liaison	Volunteer
Yearly salary	$39,899	$31,227
Hourly rate	$19.18	$15.01
Growth rate	12%	12%
Number of jobs	30,431	9,583
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 65%	Bachelor's Degree, 61%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	12	12

What does a community liaison do?

A community liaison is responsible for managing the communication between local institutions and community citizens. Community liaisons often coordinate with the community to talk about their needs and concerns, directing them to the organizations with plans on improving the people's lifestyles. They also assist in scheduling outreach meetings and fundraising activities to benefit the citizens, handling promotional events, representing an organization for human welfare to increase public awareness. A community liaison must have excellent communication and organizational skills, especially in solving community concerns and complaints.

What does a volunteer do?

Volunteers are usually unpaid individuals who render their service to a company or organization. Most of the time, volunteers are skilled in specific areas needed by the organization but prefer to provide free service. They may be employed in another organization, but they lend their time and talent to another organization or company to give back to the community. They raise funds, create awareness, and work on the ground. Volunteers usually choose a cause or advocacy close to their heart, such as teaching children, taking care of the elderly, coaching sports teams, cleaning up communities, and caring for animals.

Community liaison vs volunteer salary

Community liaisons and volunteers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Community Liaison	Volunteer
Average salary	$39,899	$31,227
Salary range	Between $29,000 And $54,000	Between $23,000 And $41,000
Highest paying City	Washington, DC	-
Highest paying state	North Dakota	-
Best paying company	BlackRock	-
Best paying industry	Utilities	-

Differences between community liaison and volunteer education

There are a few differences between a community liaison and a volunteer in terms of educational background:

	Community Liaison	Volunteer
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 65%	Bachelor's Degree, 61%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	University of Southern California	California State University - Fullerton

Community liaison vs volunteer demographics

Here are the differences between community liaisons' and volunteers' demographics:

	Community Liaison	Volunteer
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 29.5% Female, 70.5%	Male, 36.0% Female, 64.0%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 11.9% Unknown, 4.9% Hispanic or Latino, 20.9% Asian, 7.0% White, 53.5% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.9%	Black or African American, 13.2% Unknown, 5.2% Hispanic or Latino, 19.5% Asian, 7.3% White, 52.5% American Indian and Alaska Native, 2.2%
LGBT Percentage	11%	11%

Differences between community liaison and volunteer duties and responsibilities

Community liaison example responsibilities.

Grow and manage existing relationships in assign territories with physicians, hospitals, skil nursing and rehabilitation facilities and assist livings.
Create a brochure with InDesign.
Create social media strategy: Facebook administrator, NYPL blog contributor
Provide nutrition, fitness and diabetes education to the community at large.
Construct online training courses in HTML using materials provide by instructional designers.
Design the web application screens for new systems using modeling tool like HTML.

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Volunteer example responsibilities.

Develop and manage web presence, including Facebook account and other social media business accounts!
Train staff members on managing contacts, scheduling programs, and running analytic reports with the Salesforce program.
Lead team-building exercises and facilitate group discussions on leadership topics.
Assist in achieving and maintaining DoD certification and national accreditation where applicable.
Supervise and maintain safe play for children's soccer games.
Teach GED to refugees and survivors of torture seeking to enroll in college.

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Community liaison vs volunteer skills

Common community liaison skills

Patients, 19%
Customer Service, 7%
Home Health, 6%
Community Outreach, 5%
Patient Referrals, 4%
Community Resources, 4%

Common volunteer skills

Child Care, 12%
Patient Charts, 10%
Patient Care, 10%
Front Desk, 9%
Community Outreach, 9%
Mathematics, 9%

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Updated January 8, 2025

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