Average Per Person Giving in the American Church

Research on budget, attendance, and giving can help churches evaluate their health and plan for growth.

Aaron M. Hill

Introducing Market Survey Match: Find Comps for Key Staff

The Market Survey Match application empowers Pro Members to find the 3–5 most similar employees in the ChurchSalary database, offering invaluable guidance for crafting compensation packages.

Editorial Staff

Introducing the Job Description Generator

Create and revise job descriptions or brainstorm job titles using ChurchSalary new AI-powered application powered by thousands of real-world examples and a foundation of job templates.

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How Many Staff Members Should Your Church Have?

Can you apply an attendance-to-staff ratio to church to gauge whether you are over- or understaffed?

Aaron M. Hill

How Much Does the Average Church Spend on Payroll?

How much of their total operating budget do churches allocate for employee benefit and salaries?

Aaron M. Hill

Don’t Expect Exponential: Churches and Salaries Grow Logarithmically

Church and salary growth follow counterintuitive patterns.

Aaron M. Hill

Introducing Hybrid Reports

Our new Hybrid Reports app will transform the way churches approach compensation for their diverse and dedicated staff, making the process more precise, transparent, and ultimately, more helpful.

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How Does the New Precise Report Work in ChurchSalary 3.0?

The Precise Report app transforms the ChurchSalary platform into a more robust and transparent tool for analyzing compensation by empowering users to precisely define their data parameters and understand the underlying sample sizes and margins of error.

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Understanding the Local Income and Cost Analysis Tool

Rather than using one metric, our new tool finds common thresholds and patterns across seventeen different cost and income metrics to help churches adjust local pay.

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