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2025 Salary Forecaster
Insights into Fair Compensation

When XPastor hosted the first XP-Seminar someone started a grassroots effort for salary data. Within a few minutes, there were 60 salaries. Now XPastor’s Salary Forecaster has over $1.7 billion in budgets from hundreds of churches. Church sizes range from 35 to 10,000+. If you are wondering what to do with all the data in the Salary Forecaster, see this page for Steps to Fair Compensation.

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

  • Enroll using the button above. You will be sent an email with a link to this file: Salary Data Form

  • 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

On the right are four samples of the Salary Forecaster—one for each of the four census regions.

There are line items for over 12,000 church employees with a total of $1.7 billion in church budgets.

See the 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.

Pivot Tables

The Forecaster has pivot tables.

Download the sheet to activate the pivot tables.

Pivot tables allow you to see just the information 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