The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-03
AVERAGE SALARIES

PER YEAR OF MINISTER'S IN THE
UNITED STATES IS
Six, Hundred and Thirty Three Dol.
lars-Some Interesting Statistics
About Churches.
!. The average salary paid to minis
ters in the United States is s633 a
year, according to a bulletin that
the government has just issued.
This conclusion is reached from fig
ures for the year 1906. There were
then 5164,830 Christian ministers In
the United States, and 1854 Jewish
rabbis. They increase in number
at the rate of nearly 1000 e year.
the total salary paid to ministers
in 1906 was s69,667,5S7. More
than half the Christian ministers
are included in the Baptist and the
Methodist denominations.
There are number of ministers
in New York who receive $4,000 a
year. The highest salary ever Off
cred to a minister in New York was
$4,000 a year. 1t was offered by
the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
church and he declined, it. Several
ministers in New York receive $15,-
900 a year and a dozen or 80 $12,-
600 a year. These are the highest
salaries for ministers in the world.
London and Berlin averages are
hardly more than $4,000 a year.
That is, London minister who gets
$4,000 is near the top. In New York
he is near the bottom.
THE government shows the aver
age salaries of ministers in cities
having 100000 population and over
to be Baptist $1,7s3; Congrega-
tional s1,s9S; Methodist s1,642;
Presbyterian, s2,45O; Protestant
Episcopal, s1,S73; Reformed, II ST.
93S; Roman Catholic, 1854, and Jew
lsh, s1,491. era ioir;2lb
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dawn. Baptists in the South aver
apa s334 and colored Baptists In the
south s227. On the other hand
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