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Salary Comparisons Among Clergy
of Various Religious Denominations

The 1999 - 2000 National Church Staff Compensation Survey

For more information please contact CARA, Washington, DC




High Average Low

Assemblies of God, Pentecostal
$187,457 $66,856 $24,000

Baptist
$225,333 $65,388 $10,400

Roman Catholic
$53,250 $22,568 $7,500

Christian Church, Disciples of Christ, Church of Christ
$170,000 $60,098 $16,500

Episcopal
$192,355 $78,768 $30,035

Independent/Nondenominational
$400,000 $75,093 $19,500

Lutheran
$99,013 $52,334 $23,061

Methodist
$210,000 $64,721 $11,400

Presbyterian
$165,000 $73,164 $24,000



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