If a pastor is of little or no use, why is he sstill the pastor?
Our church has people in it that make minimum wage all the way to corporate heads and business owners that make millions of dollars a year. I suspect (I've never bothered to find out) that my pastor is paid roughly somewhere in the middle.
You pastor makes $500,000 a year?
No, but I suspect that his book sales make the church at least $500,000 per year (all the royalties are used for Church ministry). So whatever salary he derives is probably less than what his contribution to the church equals.
Rick Warren (for instance) takes no salary at all and is simply living off his book royalties (after paying back all the salary he ever took for that church). My pastor does it backwards, in that the royalties are given to the church and he takes a salary (which I assume is less than the value of the royalties of his books.