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Fletch Answers Your Salary Questions
Bring your salary questions. This special episode is devoted to the issues that you raise. Bring your biggest headache, the hardest question or a common issue. See if Fletch can answer it. Our money [...]
Compensation: A How-to from the Salary Guru
Fletch knows church salaries! He will walk you and Mike through how to set compensation for your church staff. This will feature the just released Salary Forecaster 2025. The Forecaster is free and has [...]
Insights on Compensation & Inflation
Compensation has a huge question mark this year. With inflation and a changing economy, churches are wondering how to pay their staff. Tune in to learn about new high-level data that ChurchSalary has to [...]
Compensation in 2022: Raises, Bonuses, Perks and Inflation
This year is a crazy year for compensation. Inflation is high and house prices are even higher! How can you give adequate raises to your staff? What bonuses and perks should you offer? Fletch [...]
Determining Staff Salaries & Benefits for 2021
Fletch, William and Sutton walk through the vital area of church compensation and benefits. In a difficult year, many churches have faced reorgs and/or budget cuts, which means compensation and benefits must be assessed [...]
Is Pastoral Compensation over $500,000 Excessive?
Thursday, February 14, 2019 Hey Fletch … no names or cities on this one … Few in our church know this and it might be disturbing to many if it leaked out. I just [...]
Bonuses for Staff
Monday, February 11, 2019 Hey Fletch … Can you give some thoughts about bonuses for staff? We are toying with the idea and don’t know what to make of it. DRF—There isn’t must hard [...]
Asking for a Raise
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Hey Fletch … I’m in the process of asking for a raise. However I do not know what is appropriate for my job title, years of experience and location. I [...]
House Down Payment for Pastors
Wednesday, November 21, 2018 Hey Fletch … I was at the Smart Money for Church Salaries workshop in Washington DC. Michael Martin from the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability suggested I ask you a [...]
Excessive Compensation
Friday, November 16, 2018 Hey Fletch … When it comes to excess/unreasonable compensation, is this something to monitor on a per employee basis or an overall budget basis? I had someone tell me that the [...]
How to Determine a Salary at a New Church
Thursday, October 18, 2018 Hey Fletch … I am currently a pastor and am up for a new position at another church. I am going to have another interview with the Finance Committee soon [...]
Gifts for Retiring Staff
Monday, October 8, 2018 Hey Fletch … We have had some long tenured staff who are going to retire. With previous people who have retired, we have awarded gifts in varying amounts from $3,000-$5,000 [...]
3.5% Raises Every Year
Friday, September 28, 2018 Hey Fletch … Our church has been giving annual raises every year for a long, long time. They are 3.5% for every staff person. The thinking is that everyone is [...]
Need Help on Developing a Salary Matrix
Wednesday, August 15, 2018 Hey Fletch … We are developing a salary matrix where each tier of employment has ranges from low to max. I have been working on this, but wanted to know [...]
Fletch and Monty Kelso Talk on Retirement Income
Fletch and Monty Kelso shared a conversation about salaries and retirement. Monty is the President of SlingShot Group. Slingshot guides churches with staff searches and helps many with compensation issues. Fletch and Monty took [...]
Pastor Buying a House in an Expensive Location
Saturday, August 11, 2018 Hey Fletch … I’m really looking forward to the Smart Money for Church Salaries workshop! Perhaps you’ll cover this there, but can you share insight into how churches in affluent [...]
Giving a Pastor a Sign-on Bonus?
Saturday, July 14, 2018 Hey Fletch … We are paying a pastor a sign-on bonus that has filed their 4361 and at the same time has a W4 with the church. What is the church’s responsibility [...]
How Do Pastors Pay Federal Tax?
Wednesday, July 4, 2018 Hey Fletch … I’m new to working in a church and think that our business office got my taxes wrong. They said that federal law requires the church, as the [...]
Smart Money for Church Salaries: Michale Martin Interviews Fletch
Salaries for pastors have unique challenges and quirks that need to be addressed. In this podcast, Michael Martin of ECFA interviews Fletch on this hot topic. Tune in to make sure your church obeys the [...]
What Others Say About Smart Money for Church Salaries
Dan Busby President of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability Establishing a fair and legally compliant compensation structure for your church is critical—and it won’t happen by accident! The new, one-day [...]
Does a Church Pay Social Security on a Pastor’s Salary?
Thursday, June 21, 2018 Hey Fletch … For a pastor that has been licensed by the Board of Elders, my assumption is that the church should not withhold any Social Security or Medicare tax, [...]
ECFA Podcast with Fletch on Salaries
The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability recently said, "XPastor to the Rescue with Church Salary Workshops." Compensation can be a murky issue for churches. Few resources are available that are both approachable and accurate. Michael [...]
Pay Staff to not Take Health Insurance
Wednesday, May 23, 2018 Hey Fletch … Thanks again for such a great XP-Seminar. It is truly run with excellence and is so helpful to me. Here’s a quick question for you or whoever [...]
Compensation Survey Data
Thursday, May 10, 2018 Hey Fletch … I noticed that some of the data in XPastor’s Compensation Survey seems dated. I'm sure if you made a plea to all the XP viewers they would [...]