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[shadeaud]

So now it’s going to be war against pastors who make ‘’more than they need’’.

[PetroniusMaximus]

ping for greed

[ClearCase_guy]

salaries rose about 2 percent per year for the last two years

Scandalous!! Are they stashing all that loot in Swiss bank accounts?

[GraniteStateConservative]

My high school class' senior class president is now a megachurch pastor (been at it for nearly 20 years) and is loaded. We're friends on FB and he's got the huge house, the huge plot of land, and plenty of recreational toys for him and his family. I don't begrudge him at all. I don't have any problem with people making money for doing a good job. He is a very good preacher and his parishioners apparently have plenty of money to throw at him. Both of my grandfathers were church pastors in the 50s-70s and they were pretty good at their trade, but didn't ever make the bank he does, because it was a different time back then.

My cousin-in-law is an associate or assistant pastor down in Texas and makes about 80K/year. There is a lot of money to be made these days in parts of the country in religion, for sure.

[MrEdd]

"Megachurch": Because idiots brought up in today's public schools were never exposed to the existing word "Cathedral" in the course of twelve wasted years.

[WorkingClassFilth]

My personal view is that pastors should support themselves. Of course, this means that their churches would be much, much smaller. In fact, I’d be happy with the Biblical model of home churches. If we get another four years of BO, the loss of tax exemption will very likely drive the [C]hurch back to its Biblical roots.

[Lee N. Field]

Chuch as a business.

[bobo1]

i pastored small churches for 15 years. always worked full-time while doing so.

didn’t make no difference to me, i wasn’t doing it for me.

however, i am only accountable for myself. what others do is between them and God.

I do not condemn anyone for making lots of money. some of the mega-churches that i know give a lot of help and assistance to the struggling and the poor. food, money, utilities, doctors, what not.

i do not condemn CEO’s of corps, nor do i condemn pastors of mega-churches. that is not my job, and they will not answer to me.

blessings, bobo

[Alex Murphy]

The 2012 report looked at salary trends for 209 megachurches (the highest number of participants since Leadership Network began the survey) – all of which had a weekend worship attendance of at least 2,000. These surveyed churches are considered "game changer" churches or "pacesetting innovative churches."

Church size was found to be the most influential factor in setting staff salaries. The larger the church, the higher the salary for its leaders. "For each additional 1,000 people in attendance, annual salary increases by roughly $8,000 on average for large church senior pastors," the report stated.

Salaries – or total cash compensation – for senior pastors ranged from over $80,000 to more than $260,000, though most of the salaries for megachurch pastors were in the $100,000 to $200,000 range. Most of the surveyed churches have an attendance of 2,000-4,999 while 44 of them see more than 5,000 attendees each weekend.

For the Scripture says...“The laborer deserves his wages.”
-- 1 Timothy 5:18