I have sat on pastor pay committees.
Generally speaking we tried to pay the pastor something that looks like the average salary of the congregation. That seems fair.
Yes. I’ve also had time on the vestry finance committee that worked a whole host of issues for the operation of the church to include the pastors compensation.
I loved this pastor man, he’z a good guy. That said, we were paying him a pretty good salary, he lived mortgage free in the home the church owned, all utilities, phone allowance...so on and so forth. Not a bad compensation package.
I’d be ok doing even more, but 200K cars, 65 million dollar jet planes, 3 homes....come on!