The Hybrid Report application represents a major advancement within ChurchSalary 3.0, designed to address the unique challenge of compensating staff who serve in multiple roles within a ministry setting. Available to Expanded or higher-tier members, the Hybrid Report empowers church leaders to accurately model salary ranges for employees whose responsibilities are divided across different positions.
Functionality and Access
The Hybrid Report combines compensation data from multiple roles into a single, comprehensive salary report, allowing for more nuanced and realistic compensation modeling.
Key Details
Membership Tier: Included with Expanded membership and higher.
Employee Profiles: The foundation of this feature is the ability to create and manage Employee Profiles within the Dashboard, enabling leaders to store data for staff members who serve in multiple roles.
Defining the Hybrid Role: Users can assign up to three distinct position types to a single employee and specify the mix percentage (weight) for each role, ensuring the total equals 100%.
Example: An “Associate Worship & Children’s Pastor” might be assigned weights such as 50% Associate Pastor, 30% Worship Pastor, and 20% Children’s Pastor.
This capability enables Expanded members to generate up to 5,832 hybrid report variations with infinite weight combinations.
Interface and Output: The application includes up to four tabs, allowing users to toggle between the composite Hybrid Report and standalone reports for each of the constituent positions.
When downloaded, all selected reports are compiled into a single PDF document.
How is the Data calculated?
The sophistication of the Hybrid Report lies in its redesigned mathematical model, which uses weighted calculations to produce accurate and realistic salary insights.
How it works:
Weighted Calculations:
The system applies user-defined percentage weights to the underlying employee data for each role, generating both weighted percentiles and weighted averages.
The algorithm searches the database for employees in the relevant positions, determines the sample size ($N$), and models a weighted salary distribution representing a realistic hybrid role.
Report Structure:
While most report sections remain the same, certain sections are intentionally omitted (e.g., Employment Profile, Benefits, and Comparable Jobs) as they do not apply to hybridized data sets.
Enabling Data Accuracy: Unhybridizing Salaries
A key technical challenge solved by the Hybrid Report is the ability to “unhybridize” salary data—allowing hybrid employee data to be used accurately in traditional standalone reports.
The Problem:
When an employee holds a hybrid role (e.g., 50% Associate Pastor, 25% Youth Pastor, 25% Worship Pastor), their salary must be adjusted when viewed in a report for only one of those positions (e.g., Associate Pastor). Without adjustment, their data would distort the report.
The Solution:
ChurchSalary uses a multi-step normalization process to preserve data integrity across all reports:
Predicts what the employee would earn if they were paid the median salary for their unique hybrid mix (predictedSalary).
Compares this predictedSalary to the current database median (currentDBMedian) for each standalone position to create a normalization index (normIndex).
Divides the employee’s total salary by the normIndex to calculate a nonHybridTotalSalary for each position.
This ensures that when a hybrid employee’s data appears in a standard report (e.g., for Youth Pastors), their adjusted salary maintains the same proportional relationship to the position’s median as it did in the hybrid report.
The Hybrid Report: Understanding Blended Roles 🔁
The Hybrid Report is specifically engineered to address the modern reality of church staffing, where employees frequently "wear multiple hats," dividing their time and responsibilities across various ministries.
With Hybrid Reports, you can now combine compensation data from up to two to three different positions. This allows churches to model unique, composite roles rather than relying on generic, single-position templates. The report adjusts pay data automatically to match.
Traditional salary reporting often struggles with such blended roles, making accurate compensation assessment challenging.
How to generate a Hybrid Report 📋
Click on Launch Dashboard once you are logged in, then click Hybrid Report under the Applications section of the page.
Click Edit Criteria to add positions from the dropdown and assign a percentage to each.
Note: Position mix percentages must total 100%.
You can view up to four reports—one for the blended role and others for each individual position. This makes it easy to compare pay side by side, and all reports download together in one PDF. Choose from a combined hybrid report and standalone reports for each individual position.
Membership Access: Hybrid Reports are available to Expanded and higher-tier members.
Note: Certain sections, such as Employment Profile, Benefits, and Comparable Jobs, are not included in Hybrid Reports, either because they repeat information or are not applicable to the blended nature of the report.
The Hybrid Report is designed for employees with multiple, blended roles, allowing the calculation of compensation based on a custom mix of positions. Hybrid Reports use percentage weights for different job titles. Hybrid Reports offer a "Criteria Control Panel" and multiple report tabs to manage position mixes. Precise Reports utilize the "Histogram Range Slider" for graphical and numerical input of ranges, along with the "Sample Size Banner" and "Tooltips" for real-time feedback and data transparency.