p. 16 | Ministers' Salaries by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 4, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 39.

Ministers' Salaries

By Editor

Ministers' Salaries.—A daily paper tries to make it appear that ministers as a class are well paid. For instance in cities of 300,000 or over the average preacher's salary is in the Baptist Church $1,793; Congregational, $1,938; Methodist, $1,632; Presbyterian, $2,450; Episcopal, $1,873; Jewish, $1,491; Catholic, $684. But we all know that in the cities are the large-salaried men. What must the averages be in the smaller towns and villages? Many indeed are below $500. If, for instance, the average is $2,500 a year, and the highest salary is $5,000, which we are told many receive, what must the lowest be? Some receive $15,000 and some $12,000. What of the man below the average?

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