Our friends at Leadership Network recently launched their “2014 Large Church Salary, Staffing and Budget Survey.” Their goal was to email someone in every large church (attendance 1,000 to 50,000+) across North America.
The responses from this survey will allow them to report valuable information such as:
- What’s the salary range for an executive pastor in a church of 7,000?
- How do budgets compare for churches with attendances of 8,000-9,000?
- What’s the staff-to-attender ratio in churches over 10,000?
- What percent of budget goes to staffing costs in megachurches, and how does that change with size?
- How does the salary of a founding pastor in a large church compare with that of a successor pastor?
The more churches who participate, the more specific comparisons they can provide. If you didn’t receive an email inviting your church to participate, please send this link to the person on your staff who is privy to your church’s salary and budget information.
Here’s the link to the survey: https://www.research.net/s/C8YRZKM
Benefits of participating: For those who participate, they offer an executive summary, an invitation-only video Q&A webcast and even a copy of the data set (sanitized to remove all church-identifier clues). All free. For larger churches, nowhere else will you join such a sizable group of peers. The time you invest will come back to you in multiplied helpful information.
Questions? Contact them at research@leadnet.org or 214-754-9179.
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Warren Bird, Ph.D., research director at Leadership Network, is author or co-author of 26 books including Better Together: Making Church Mergers Work with Jim Tomberlin. His most recent titles are Next: Pastoral Succession that Works and Wisdom from Lyle E. Schaller. Recent online reports include “Leadership Network/Generis Multisite Church Scorecard“, and “The Heartbeat of Rising Influence Churches,” Follow him on Twitter @warrenbird.
