Survey Includes:

In 2004, ACU’s Church Relations Team administered its first Ministers Salary Survey via email. More than 500 ministers, serving in various roles, participated in the first survey. Every year a new salary survey is conducted.

The survey compares minister compensation packages, including allowances and benefits, as well as comparing number of years in ministry and educational background and experience.

Uses:

These surveys serve church leaders in a variety of ways:

1. Church leaders learn about how other churches are structuring the compensation of their ministers.
2. The surveys provide data for comparing the current levels of compensation for ministers in churches of various sizes and in different states.
3. Church leaders, who may be searching for new ministers, will be able to negotiate more consistently in keeping with current salary ranges.

Results:

The results of the surveys are linked below:

• 2008
  
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004