Odd isn't it, that it isn't above most Pastor's pay grade to tell you when life begins.
poverty, chastit — oh, wait, nevermind.
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The “compensation” includes, usually, the whole package: housing, utilities, *insurance-health and life, sometimes a car, and use of a cell phone, *retirement benefits, etc. However, when added all up it is still quite a bit less than a UAW worker receives with all HIS/HER compensation.
Their jobs are only as stable as those of their congregations.
*Denominations try to get group insurance for the health and retirement.
Need to find one of those great paying full-time secretary jobs. ;) IMO, the article is about the exceptions, not the rules.
Members of Congress ($169,300) make more than twice that earned by pastors. This proves that the devil pays better than the church.
Yeah, but they have to work on Sundays......
That doesn’t sound to bad for a job where you don’t have to worry about your mistakes since they were probably going to go to hell anyway .
Yes - I am being a little sarcastic but not too much.
I see nothing wrong with this salary. When you consider most pastors are are on call 24/7, this really adds up to nothing in light of the hours they put in. Our pastor also holds a full time job during the week working at his business as a commercial landscaper. Every first Sunday we have a pastor’s offering. He gets what is given to that offering, and that amount varies weekly from little of nothing to very generous depending upon who gives. No one is pressured, it’s not announced as a special offering, it’s just a day set aside to bless him for all he does. He gets a very small percentage of the offerings on the other Sundays. This is one thing the advisory board insisted upon. He was offered a salary, and it was approved by our advisory board, but he refused stating he would rather the money go to “kingdom work” instead. My grandfather was a pastor for 30 years and never took more than 600.00 a month as a salary. He made his living as a painter. Even when he drew Social Security he refused anything more. My grandfather was available to his congregants 24/7 as is my current pastor. One thing I admire about our Pastor is that he is very open about church finances. Anyone at anytime can request to see how much we take in and where it goes.
Does anyone here think that $80,000 is a high salary?
Couldn’t buy much of a house in the coastal states on it.
Yes and their home is paid for also.
Not much when y0ou consider its 7 days a weeks 24 hours a day on call and he throws in the wife for all the “pastors wife” functions.
In my Methodist denomination, minimum pay is set by the geographic region that we call an “annual conference.” In our conference, and we’re not that unusual, the minimum pay for an ordained elder is right under $34,000 a year. That generally has a parsonage with utilities ($3500), health care ($15,000),travel ($5000), and retirement ($4,000) on top of that for a total package in the neighborhood of $55-60,000.
“Giving households” is a better measure of church giving than is attendance. One should probably divide attendance by about 4 to get at the number of households. Some of those might be visitors, inquirers, etc., so not all would be “giving households.” A church of 200 attendance, for example, should have about 50 giving households. If the average wage in our region is $35,000 a year, then one should expect less than 175,000 a year in church giving, since so many people do not tithe on gross income or do not tithe at all.
When one adds on any loan expense for church buildings, expenses for maintenance, utilities, fees, services, etc., then that would leave in the neighborhood of 60 or 70 thousand to run programs with.
Obviously, if one adds a youth pastor, praise & worship director, etc., then that 60-70 goes immediately out the window.
I’d say that the 80,000 mentioned in this article is high for our area, but since it is in terms of total package, it isn’t that high an income.
If every Christian Gave God back what is rightfully His
(10%)
Pastors would never even have to blink and eye about thier salary.
But alas most Christians don’t tithe so the issue remains
If you do not tithe he calls you a Robber (thief) see Malichi.
And don’t try to tell me that that was Old Testament vs New Testament.
Christ came to fulfill the law of the Old Testament not to do away with it.
And just saying “bullbutter” shows you are very immature in this matter.