Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-26
CENSUS BUREAU SHOWS AVER.
AGE ANNUAL SALARY is
ONLY 1868.
FIRST OFFICIAL STATISTICS
ON SALARIES OF PREACHERS
Unitarians Show the Highest Average
Large Salaries Paid City Ministers
Increases General Average = For
Smaller Towns Average is Only
s57a.

Washington, May 26.-The average
annual salary Of minister Of gospel
is bu. 1868. in all the demonstrations
represented in the compilations on this
subject in Part / of special report
on the Census of Religious Bodies for
1905. which is now in press preparatory
to its submission to rhe United States
Census Director Durand to Secretary
Nagel of the Department of Commerce
and Labor. The report was compiled
under the supervision of Mr.. William
C. Hunt, chief statistician Of popula-
lion in the Census Bureau, and the
statistics were collected partly by
correspondence and partly by special
agents.
First Official Statistics.
It is pointed out in the introduction
that this is the first time an attempt
has been made in the United States
census to secure official statistics con-
corning salaries paid to ministers. 1t
is stated that the results of the census
are not entirely satisfactory on account
of the failure of some ministers TO re-
port llelT salary anu ol OIHSiS " ic-
port with sufficient clearness. OF the
grand total of lS6 denominations in
continental United States, the report
states that Is have no regular ministry
and SO either pay no stated salaries or
made returns which were no- suffi-
GENTLY complete to warrant tabulation-
OF the POLISH organizations compos-
ing the 102 remaining denominations,
there were 1929. or SIG per cent,
which made returns to the census in
quiry, and the report states there is
reason to believe that these are sub
stantially complete and accurate. and
It is thought that they embrace a suf-
ficienr number of organizations of
the respective denominations to be fair
ly representative of conditions as to
the average salaries paid to>ministers.
The figures in the tables are for con-
tinental United States, for each of the
four principal classes of cties-that is,
those having a population in 1900 of
$4,000 to 10000 of $4,000 TO 100000, of
100000 to 100000, and of 100000 and
over, and for the area outside of them.
Unitarians Show Highest Average.
The denomination showing the high
est average is the Unitarian, with ST.
$50. while the denomina tons next in
order are the Protestant Episcopal
Church, &1.242; the Universalists, ST.
23s; the General Convention Of the New
Jerusalem in the United States OF
America, 1929; the Jewish congrega-
tons. 1922: the Presbyterian Church
in the United States Of America, ST.
III; the Reformed Church in America,
s1,17O; the United Presbyterian Church
of North America, 81 ,o9s; the Cengre-
gationalists, s1,o42: the Christian Ca
tholic Church in Zion, s1,037: and the
Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian
Church of North America. s1,00s.
Highest in Large Cities.
The average salary shown for the
large cities is considerably higher as
a rule than the general average for the
denomination. while for the area out
side of the principal cities it is usually
somewhat less. Moreover, the av-
erage salary generally corresponds to
the grade Of the cities. For all de-
nominations together it ranges from
1929 for cities of the first class to ST.
10 for those of the second class; ST.