WHY ARE PASTORS THE SECOND POOREST PAID IN THE WORLD?
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WHEN I SENT YOU LACKED YE ANYTHING?
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1. A recent Gallop survey indicated that among professionals, the clergy was listed second only to pharmacists in their honesty and ethical standards.
2. Gary Macintosh, a renowned expert on pastoral compensation says clergy continues to be one of the most underpaid professions in the world.
3. Clergy ranked seventh among the ten worst-paying jobs requiring degrees. The clergy comprises several degree holders earning the salaries of school certificate holders in most denominations and churches.
4. In a more recent survey carried out among Pastors in Lagos, Oyo, Ogun, and Ondo States in Southwest Nigeria by our research team, 90% of pastors’ major problem after their marriages, was an extremely low level of income. This is enough discouragement for aspiring pastors and ministers.
5. Some denominations in Nigeria still pay their pastors and Ministers $17 (N25,000) as monthly salary. This is below the national minimum wage of N30,000 in Nigeria as of 2019. Pastor’s income is yet to catch up with the National wage realities of the year 2000.
6. The majority of pastors can be said to be living between moderate and extreme poverty. What are moderate and extreme poverty? World Bank defined extreme poverty as living on less than the equivalent of one US Dollar per day ($30 per month). Moderate poverty is living on less than two US Dollars per day ($60 monthly).
7. From my interactions and empirical research among pastors, as recent as 2019, twenty factors account for the level of pervasive, endemic poverty among servants of God.
8. That was the case even before COVID-19 became a pandemic. Flashes of wealth among the clergy are occasional and exceptions to the rule concluding Du Point Global Research; *One percent of clergy in every nation can be said to be extremely wealthy in financial terms. Five percent are financially independent at age 65.
9. At least 54 percent of pastors will be extremely broke at age 65. These men of God will depend on children, churches, and society to survive. Not many churches cater to their retired pastors adequately.
10. There are profound secrets that have become the habits of a few financially successful pastors. These habits remain hidden secrets to the over 54 percent of poor pastors.
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