Win a Salary Study worth $3,000
The free Salary Forecaster is about ready to cross the $3 billion mark in church data.
If your church is the one that puts us over that mark, you will receive a free 35 page compensation study, with bell charts on 5 key staff and a compensation grid for all staff.
That salary study is worth $3,000 and we are giving it away just because it is fun to cross the $3 billion mark!
2026 Salary Forecaster
Gain insights into fair Compensation. XPastor’s Free Salary Forecaster has $2.5 billion in church data from hundreds of churches. It all began at XPastor’s the first XP-Seminar when someone started a grassroots effort for salary data. Within a few minutes, there were 60 salaries. The data now is so large as to give strong statistical reliability. Church sizes range from 25 to 10,000+.
Around the country, salaries and benefits are 54.5% of church budgets. This area deserves your best attention.
If you are wondering what to do with all the data in the Salary Forecaster, see the DIY. Boggled by all the data and the time it will take to create a salary study, Get Fletch’s Help. See common issues as Fletch Answers Salary Questions.
$2,486,090,026
The largest free church database
Can we just round it to the closest hundred million and call it $2.5 billion?
There is a ton of salary data in the free Salary Forecaster! Get involved and use top quality data.
Learn more about a Salary Study from XPastor here.
Easily Compare Data
Find churches in your region of a similar size. Compare those salaries to your church. See the relative salary differences between top management and staff. The salaries include base salary plus housing. The worship size is the average worship attendance per Sunday in each church. The data is sorted into the four census regions of the United States—midwest, northeast, south and west.
It is amazing that the range of annual budget sizes and salaries in churches with 900-1,050 in attendance. The summary data is extremely helpful for our Administrative Team. —DH
As someone that did something similar for over 20 years with large churches, I think the Salary Forecaster is well done. —Dave
Two Easy Steps
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Enroll using the button above. You will be sent an email with a link to this file: Salary Data Form
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When we receive your data, we will grant access to the Salary Forecaster for 365 days.
Anonymity
All data is posted anonymously and your confidential information is secure. No city or state location data is shared. Titles are smoothed out for anonymity and easy comparison. For example the title, College Pastor to Harvard University, is changed to College Pastor/Director. Your anonymity is important and safeguarded. We use 58 titles in our published data.
Samples of the Salary Forecaster
The Salary Forecaster has billions of dollars in data.
There are line items for over 25,000+ church employees.
See line item salaries from Senior Pastor to Facility Worker.
The data is forecast for the next year so that you can set where salaries should be.
This is ideal for creating budgets and setting fair compensation.
Four samples of the Salary Forecaster
One for each of the four census regions
Pivot Tables
The Forecaster has pivot tables.
Download the sheet to activate the pivot tables.
Pivot tables allow you to see just the roles or census areas that you want to see.
Bell Curve Charts
The Forecaster has bell curves for Pastors and Directors:
- Senior Pastor
- Executive Pastor
- Worship
- Campus
- Adults
- Students
- Communications
- Operations
- and more …
When you are registered for the Forecaster, and logged into your XPastor account, you will see the link to the Forecaster below
When you are registered for the Forecaster, and logged into your XPastor account, you will see the link to the Forecaster below
