The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-06-02
ALL CREEDS ARE CONSIDERED
The Largest Cities Pay the Largest
Salaries While the Rural Districts
Pay the smallest-Ayerage Figures
Given.

! lister OF the gospel is but So6o, IN al
the denominations represented in the
compilations on this subject in Part
of a special report on the Census
of Religious Bodies for 1906, which is
now in press preparatory to it's submits
sion by United States Census Director
Durand to Secretary Nagel of the De
partment Of Commerce and Labor
The report was compiled under the
supervision of William G. Hunt, chief
statistician of population of the cen
sus bureau and the statistics were col
lected partly by correspondence and
partly by special agents.
1t is pointed out in the introduction
that this is the first time an attempt
has been made in United States cen
sus to secure official statistics concern
ing salaries paid to ministers. It il
stated that the results Of the census
are not entirely satisfactory on &C
COuAC VI JIG Ld1lu16 VI 0OuI6 HI1A1ot6IS
to report their salary and Of others tt
report with sufficient clearness. Oh
the grand total Of 1856 denominations
in continental United States, the re
port states that Is have no regular
ministry and SO either pay no stated
salary or made returns which were not
sufficiently complete to warrant tabu
lation.
Of the 201,351 organizations compos
ing the 102 remaining denominations
there were 164,229, 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 suf
ficient number of organizations Of the
respective denominations to be fairly
representative Of conditions as to the
average salaries paid to ministers
The figures in the tables arc, for con
tinental United States for each of the
four principal classes of cities-that
lis. those having a population in 1900
of $4,000 to $4,000, of $4,000 to
100000, of 100000 to 100000, and of
100000 and over, and for the area out
side of them.
The denomination showing the high
est average is the Unitarian, with
ST. ,653, while the denominations next
in order are the Protestant Episcopal
church, $1,242; the Universalists
1928; the General Convention of the
New Jerusalem in the United States of
America, 1928; the Jewish congrega.
tions, 1922; the Presbyterian church
in the United States of America
| SLIT; the Reformed church in Ameri-
ca, SLIGO; the United Presbyterian
church of North America, $1,096; the
Congregationalists, $1,O42; the Christ
ian Catholic church in Zion, $1,037;
and the Synod of the Reformed Pres
byterian church of North America,
81 ,00S.
Among the denominations showing
an average salary, considerably lower
than the general average for the Unit
ed States are the Advent Christian
church; all the Baptist bodies except
the Northern Baptist Convention; the
Christian Union; the Christians
| christian Connection); the Church of
Christ, Scientist; the General Elder
ship Of the Churches of God in North
America; the Society of Friends (Orth-
odox); the colored Methodist bodies;
the Methodist Protestant, Wesleyan,
Methodist, and Free M ct h di
churches; the Salvation Army; and the
Volunteers of America. In the case
of most of these last named bodies as
shown by the report, many of the or
CARNATIONS reporting are outside of
the principal cities, and many of them
are doubtless in rural regions, and this
fact accounts largely for the compare
lively low average salary The low
average shown for the Church of
Christ, Scientist, is said to be due to
the fact that most of those who serve
as ministers, or readers, are persons
having other vocations and not Deepen.
dent on the salaries paid by the
churches. In the case of the Saliva.
ton Army and the Volunteers of
America the allowance made for the
officers serving at the various posts is
usually based upon their probable ex-
penses, and is practically limited to
these expenses.
The average salary. shown for the
large cities is considerably higher as
a rule than the general average fol
the denomination, while for the area
outside of the principal cities it is usu-
ally somewhat less Moreover. the
average salary generally corresponds
to the, grade of the cities. For all
denominations together it ranges from
l$1,223 for cities Of the first class te
ST fl0. for those Of the second class:
$1,o63 for those of the third class;