![]() ![]() It is generally considered good practice to pay a trained youth minister the rough equivalent to a public school teacher in your region. If you are a youth minister that isn’t being paid according to these guidelines, then I’d recommend reading “ How to Get a Youth Ministry Raise.” With those general guidelines established, here is some good general salary advice for youth ministry. For those staff that desire to work full-time with benefits, combine areas of responsibility (youth and childrens ministry, worship and men’s/women’s ministry, etc.) until you can provide for this basic need. If this is your church’s cost savings strategy, then it’s time to do better. Similarly, hiring lots of staff at 30 hrs/week so that you don’t have to provide health insurance is unjust at every level. It does not reflect well on the church that it has become so common for churches to hire staff for 20 hrs/week and expect 40 hrs/week of work. ![]() This is an area of significant injustice in church ministry staffing.Someone that has a responsibility to pay student loans, provide for a family, or just meet obligations is very likely to leave even a position that they love if their needs aren’t being met. A person that feels under-appreciated will not stay in the position long. A person that is living on the brink of financial disaster is not going to stay in the position long. This doesn’t make them less called or less spiritual. Tenure of your youth minister will be highly influenced by the salary that you choose for this person.Whether you are hiring for a large church or a small one, a youth ministry professional that has both a sense of call to ministry and has professional training needs to be your aim if you want long term ministry success.As a professor of youth ministry that supervises interns and consults with churches as they hire personnel, churches often ask my advice about the appropriate salary for youth ministry personnel: Youth Pastor, Youth Director, Associate/Assistant Youth Director, Youth Ministry Intern, etc. ![]()
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