The National Church Compensation Survey and Staff Salary Survey gather data 24/7, 365 days a year. However, due to the annual rhythm of church budgets and salary changes in the real world, ChurchSalary filters, validates, and incorporate this new data to our database several times a year.
Our most recent major update occurred on November 22, 2023. This update included:
New data for 6,391 employees serving at 4,288 churches gathered in 2023
Refreshed (aged up) compensation data for over 20,000 employees gathered before 2022
Updated cost of living, income, and population density data
Revised geographic matching for 32,991 ZIP codes in the United States
Latest comparable jobs data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics