The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-05


more well-to-do, and are better able 70
pay liberal salaries; and it is TO their
credit that they do it. Most of the
'plums" Of the professionalism there are
plums in the ministry as well as in the
law and among the teachers-are in the
north, though there are some snug places
in the south.
The salaries of Episcopal bishops range
in the north from 5000 a year, with $500
for Official and travelling expenses, to
So, 800, with an allowance for house rent.
In the south the salaries of similar off,
cials range from S, GOO to s., 900. Consid-
cred as a whole, the Episcopal church
pays its bishops an average Of 5000 a
year.
The Methodist church north pays its
sixteen bishops an average salary Of S, 500
/ plus 81 500 for house rent and sum for
[ travelling and incidental official expenses.
The Methodist church south pays its
bishops about $500 for all purposes, in
Guiding house rent, salary aud travelling
! expenses.
The pay of Catholic bishops averages
from $1,000 to S, 900 year, with house
! The salaries, north and south, Of Cath
/ Ollie bishops are much nearer alike in
amount than those of the bishops
Of any Protestant church. The arch
! bishops of the Catholic church are paid
about $4,000
! Mr.. Carroll considers the bishops first
and separately in order to make com
| parison of the salaries received by them
and those received by the judges and by
/ presidents of colleges and universities.
! There are, he says, sixteen college presi-
dents who receive s., 200 and upward. OF
these only one gets as much as $4,000,
ten receive 5000 each, and four various
amounts between the two sums. He
knows Of one bishop Of the Episcopal
church who gets Sl2,500 a year,
but he knows of no college
or university president who re-
ceives a like sum. The chief justice OF
the United States gets s1O,5OO. The aver
age salary of the 240 bishops in the coun-
try seems to be about $1,000, while the
average salary Of college presidents seems
to be about So, COO
OF the preachers who work among the
| congregations, the Congregational, Epis-
| copal and Presbyterian churches pay
| larger salaries than the Methodist and
Baptist churches. The average salary of
the Congregational preacher, including
house rent, is about 81, O47. The Episco-
pal rectors income averages about 81 900
| to 81 200, and the Presbyterian preachers
salary about 81 ,035. The average of the
! Methodists is about SS47 and of the
Baptists about the same amount.
There are, of course, in each of
the denominations great city churches
that pay big salaries, some as high as
$4,000 with house rent and perquisites
| On the other hand, there are churches in
certain sections that pay their preachers
as low as 500 year. it being necessary
for the hardworked men to serve four or
five churches each in order to make up
salary sufficient to provide the necessa-
ries of life. These figures are, generally
speaking, taken for the denomination as
a whole. 1t must be considered, in the
case of the preachers, as with the bishops,
that the salaries paid in the north are
higher than those paid in the south.
Among the Lutherans the highest sal
ary paid is $4,000, and that only in sin
gle instance. There are few salaries of
$780, $4,000 and $1,000, but not many
| The church nearly always provides a
house for the preacher. The average of
salaries is not obtainable
The average salary of Catholic priest
is about $500, with house, light and fuel.
Jewish rabbis get as high as $4,000, be-
| sides perquiSites. The highest salary
paid in New York is SIC, 900 and the lowest
81 900
From all the facts, Mr. Carroll con-
cludes that preachers are not more poorly
paid than some other professional men,
notably the school teachers. While it is
true that sometimes a cultured preacher
must content himself with $500 year, an
amount barely sufficient to meet the most
pressing needs and leaving no margin for
the education of his children, the great
majority of ministerial salaries are three
or four times as large. On the other
hard, the salaries of teachers of public
schools are nearly always small, espe-
cially in the rural districts. The minis
ter gets his discount at the store, his half
rate railroad fare, his marriage fees, etc.
The teacher gets none of these.