PayScale.com<\/a>.<\/p>\nMy questions for you are two:<\/p>\n
1. How much does your church pay your pastor? A rough ballpark figure is fine.<\/p>\n
2. If the church had an additional $84,000 in their annual budget, would you hire another pastor, or do something else with it in the community?<\/p>\n
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As I was doing research for one of the books I’m writing, I stumbled across the statistic that the average pastor’s salary in the United States is over…<\/p>\n