Do-It-Yourself Salary Guide
You can create a cogent Salary Report. Here’s how.
Preliminaries
- Get access to XPastor’s free Salary Forecaster with billions of dollars in budgets.
- Because of complexity, many turn to Fletch for help. Determine if you need help.
- Read common questions in: Fletch Answers Salary & Forecaster Questions.
Now raise the bar to professional levels.
Use Fletch’s Pyramid
See this page for ideas: Using Fletch’s Compensation Pyramid
1. Create Metrics for Raises
- Consider the Cost of Living Adjustment
- Consider the cost of health insurance
- Create metrics for raises, such as experience, education, responsibility, team spirit, missional alignment and special considerations
2. Create Church Staff Categories
- Ministerially Exempt
- Managerially Exempt
- Administratively Exempt
- Non-Exempt
3. Get Salary Forecaster Pivot Tables
4. Get Salary Forecaster Comparisons
5. Create the Big Burrito of All Compensation
To preserve anonymity, this is a composite church
6. Create a Compensation Grid
7. Create a Bell Curve Charts for Key Staff
8. Find Local Data
Use a Cost of Living indicator to find the data for your community.
Discover what local school teachers and district officials earn.
Thank you for the information on XPastor to help me put together a compensation report for our leadership team. In our January elder meeting, I suggested a salary review and the board was eager to get this information. It was clear to me that we were not paying our pastor well.
The treasurer, who is the most conservative person on the board, loved it. What surprised me is how quickly she admitted that she should have been more proactive on the subject of pastoral compensation. After reading the report, the board took about 10 minutes of conversation before agreeing to increase the pastor’s compensation by $10,000.
Paul P, Elder in a Church