An Anglicostal Connecting to a Real World
A megachurch pastor!
Or a men’s ministries pastor in a megachurch!
Or a women’s ministries pastor in a megachurch!
Those salaries aren’t bad:
$139,000 Median salary for senior pastors at megachurches (2,000+ in weekly attendance).
$60,000 Median salary for men’s ministry pastors at megachurches.
$47,000 Median salary for women’s ministry pastors at megachurches.
More good stuff HERE.
Why is the median salary for men’s ministers 13k per year higher than the salary for women’s ministers?
Questions to ponder. Wah wah wah.
And more… who is wrecking the curve on the low end for the senior pastor? What schmuck at a megachurch is lacking faith that his salary is bringing that median so low?
Probably Rick Warren, whose salary is zero.
Putz.
I actually like Rick Warren.
I love Rick’s integrity. Just playing around because he wrecked the prosperity curve.
Me too. Point is he doesn’t draw a salary.
Gotcha… too early in the morning for me to catch the word play…. How dare he do that…
In Australia these megachurch pastors are causing some little trouble. We have a tax break for ministers in which a proportion of their salary can go into a ministerial expense account on which they pay no tax.
The idea of it was to reward the good work ministers and pastoral workers do for little pay when compared to that of other work… Some denominations set it at 33% the AOG recommend 50% yet its only a recommendation. Many of the mega church pastors put 100% of their income into this account and so pay no tax…. yet their income is much more than the average pay of a minister…
There was a push from society because of this to remove this scheme… the gov looked at it, but decided to keep it up because of the vast good it was doing within the welfare system…
Wow. That sounds more convoluted than the American tax system. How is that even possible? 😉
A portion of the salary is put into a trust account which the church oversee’s. From it their ministry expenses are paid…fuel,car, books, study, computer,telephone, conferences etc..
When they move from one church to another, any amount left is paid to them in a lump sum for them to use as they wish and the new church starts a new account.
This same ministry account though is used within the welfare system for case workers, homeless shelter workers etc…its a reward for the pay which is much lower then it is in the corporate world.
Apprentice 2 Jesus 
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