{"id":1984,"date":"2011-03-07T12:02:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T17:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2011-03-30T20:36:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T00:36:42","slug":"what-could-the-church-do-with-18-7-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/what-could-the-church-do-with-18-7-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"What Could the Church do with $18.7 Billion?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you ever need statistics and facts on churches, church attendance, megachurches, and numbers of people who attend church in the United States, I posted some\u00a0demographic sites here<\/a>.\u00a0One of the sites was the\u00a0Hartford Institute for Religion Research<\/a>. Here are some of the statistics I found:<\/p>\n

-There are about 300,000 protestant churches in the US.
\n-The median church size is 75 people (the average is 186).
\n-50% of people who attend church attend the largest 10% of churches (350 people or more).
\n-There are 600,000 clergy members in the US.
\n-The average pastoral salary is $31,234. But if we only look at pastors in churches of more than 1000 people, the average salary is $81,923.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are a lot of other statistics there as well.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Just for fun, do the math on these last two statistics. If the average salary for 600,000 clergy is $31,234, then this means that every year, $18.7 billion goes toward pastoral salaries in the United States.<\/p>\n

I’m not necessarily saying this should happen, and I believe the worker is worthy of his wages…but I wonder what the church could do with $18.7 billion if we were not paying our pastors?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you ever need statistics and facts on churches, church attendance, megachurches, and numbers of people who attend church in the United States, I posted some\u00a0demographic sites here.\u00a0One of the sites was the\u00a0Hartford Institute for Religion Research. Here are some of the statistics I found: -There are about 300,000 protestant churches in the US. -The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32],"class_list":{"0":"post-1984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-theology-church","8":"entry"},"yoast_head":"\nWhat Could the Church do with $18.7 Billion?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How much do pastors get paid? 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