After months of surveying, collecting data, crunching numbers, and careful analysis, the latest, most comprehensive large church compensation research project has concluded and is ready for release!
Dr. Warren Bird and his team collected salary and benefits information from 1,045 large churches in the United States and Canada. Data on more than 13,000 staff was analyzed and layered with data from additional sources to provide church leaders with the most fair and competent benchmarking offered anywhere.
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What were the most recent annual pay raises?
What percent of church budget goes to staffing costs, and how does that change with church size?
How does rate of a church's growth (or lack of growth) affect compensation?
Does being multisite increase the senior pastor's pay?
How does local cost of living affect pastoral compensation?
Who gets paid highest? How far away is the #2 person from the top person's pay level?
Our goal is to help church leaders, especially those of innovative larger churches, who want to learn from each other's practices and build healthier systems for their church. This report highlights our latest landmark study of large-church compensation. This will be a useful document for pastors, ministry leaders, elders, board members, or any other key decision makers in the church.
We recommend churches and their governing bodies review this information every few years.
This is our most comprehensive and directly applicable resource for churches.
Every church is unique. If you are looking for compensation data that is customized for your church, we can create a special report tailored just for your situation. Your individualized report will provide your team with analysis of the specific roles you want to check against other peers. Your tailored report will draw from almost 20,000 different individual salaries from large churches in the U.S. and Canada.
In addition, Leadership Network will use several other data sources to provide your oversight team with what it needs to gain clarity in tailoring compensation packages for your unique situation. These include geography, size of ministry, and other factors necessary to do fair, competent benchmarking.
Have questions about any of our salary-related products? Email us at research@leadnet.org so we can best serve you.