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The megachurches sound like they have a pretty good deal. I'll set your salary that I don't have to pay, and you set my salary that you don't have to pay. No conflict there, wink, wink. using a compensation study of a range of churches that’s conducted by a law firm the church won’t identify.

There are plenty of places to get legitimate salary surveys.

We were a middle class church, the pastor should have a similar lifestyle as his flock.

We are a wealthier church, so the preacher should be making a good bit more than I do. He certainly lives in a more expensive neighborhood.

If you are Presbyterian, then the Presbytery acts as a secondary level of control on the pastor's salary.

[AppyPappy]

Or they could just get nothing from the congregation.

IIRC This preacher isn’t paid by his congregation. And he can say anything he wants from the pulpit. And does. I seriously expect he is a freeper.

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