The Pastor Salary Calculator draws on 25+ years of real job posting data from churches like yours. Select your role, church size, denomination, and state, and you’ll instantly see a salary distribution showing what percentage of churches are actually offering at each range.

The calculator also estimates a total compensation package including housing allowance, and compares your offer against the BLS National Median Clergy Wage so you know where you stand nationally.
Whether you’re budgeting for your first hire or benchmarking an existing position, the Pastor Salary Calculator gives your pastor search committee real data to work with.

Try the Pastor Salary Calculator →

Gold Star Resume listings are now featured as Spotlight Resumes in search results. Just like Spotlight Jobs, one Gold Star listing will appear at the top of resume search results and category pages for maximum exposure. This means your listing will still be seen even as it ages. Gold Star listings have loads of other benefits like video attachments and contact photos which makes a church 3x more likely to engage. Spotlight Resumes is the latest feature as we focus on making resumes more effective to give you the best chance to connect with the right church.

IMPORTANT: In order to qualify as a Spotlight Resume you must define your denomination, years of experience, and education.

Candidate Comparison lets your search committee view 2-4 applicants side-by-side in a single, easy-to-read table. Instead of flipping between browser tabs or shuffling through printed resumes, you can now compare the most important details of your applicants at a glance.

How It Works
Using Candidate Comparison is simple:

Select your candidates – Check the box next to 2-4 applicants you want to compare
Click “Compare Selected” – Our system instantly generates a comparison table
Review and discuss – Share your screen in committee meetings or print the comparison for offline discussion
Make your decision – Narrow down your finalists with confidence

Exclusive to Gold Star Listings
Candidate Comparison is available exclusively with Gold Star job listings – our premium tier designed for churches conducting serious pastoral searches.

Candidate Comparison is available now for all Gold Star job listings on ChurchJobs.net.

Gold Star listings now include a “Notify Applicants” feature that allows you to send a professional, courteous notification to multiple candidates with just a few clicks. This can be used when closing your listing, or when you have narrowed your search to your top few candidates.

How It Works
Select Who to Notify – Uncheck any finalists you’re still considering, ensuring they don’t receive a rejection message
Choose Your Message – Select from professionally-crafted templates for different scenarios:

“We’ve selected candidates for the next round of interviews”
“We’ve filled this position”
Or write your own custom message

Preview and Send – Review your message before sending to ensure it reflects your church’s voice and values

Respectful Ministry Hiring
This feature helps churches maintain the professional courtesy that ministry candidates deserve. Applicants receive clear communication about their status and can see the update in their ChurchJobs.net dashboard, allowing them to move forward confidently in their calling.

Available Now
This feature is available immediately for all Gold Star listings. To access it, simply navigate to your job management page in My ChurchJobs and click “Notify Applicants.” This is another feature exclusive to ChurchJobs.net!

We’re excited to announce a new feature for Gold Star job listings: PSC Access.

The Challenge
Hiring a pastor or ministry leader is rarely a one-person decision. Many churches involve a pastor search committee to review candidates together. Until now, this meant forwarding emails, scheduling meetings, and manually tracking everyone’s feedback—a time-consuming process that slowed down your search.

The Solution
With PSC Access, you can now invite up to 8 search committee members to review applicants online and help you streamline your process and screen applicants together. Here’s how it works:

See feedback instantly – View everyone’s votes in one place to quickly identify your strongest candidates

Key Benefits

Save time – No more forwarding emails or scheduling review meetings
Get aligned faster – See which candidates have committee consensus at a glance
Maintain confidentiality – Each member reviews privately with their own secure link
Stay organized – All feedback collected in one central location

Privacy or Transparency

The account holder can choose to keep committee votes private to the committee, or transparent so every can see who is interested in which candidate. Screen candidates together as a committee.

Available Now
PSC Access is included with all Gold Star job listings at no additional cost. This is another feature exclusive to ChurchJobs.net! Already have an active Gold Star listing? Add your committee members today in your job settings. Post your job listing now!

]]> https://www.churchjobs.net/blog/all-church-accounts-can-access-resume-database/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:16:55 +0000 https://www.churchjobs.net/blog/?p=458 For years we have made Resume Database access a feature that come with posting a premium job listing. As of today all Church accounts gain access to the Resumes Database. We hope this helps make more connections!

]]> https://www.churchjobs.net/blog/new-payment-processor/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:03:27 +0000 https://www.churchjobs.net/blog/?p=456 We switched to a new payment processor over the weekend which should make payments much faster and straightforward. In addition to credit cards you can use Apple Pay, Google Pay, Amazon Pay and Link. Please let us know if you run into any issues.

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Gold Star listings are randomly featured as Spotlight Jobs in search. One random Gold Star listing will appear at the top of search results and category pages for maximum exposure. This means your listing will still be seen even as it ages. Gold Star listings have loads of benefits and this is simply the latest addition to our highest level of job listing.

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To improve the effectiveness of our free resumes, we now allow you to link to a self-hosted resume file (PDF or MS Word) where you can include more information.

We also increased the character limit to allow a Summary Statement of 1000 characters in Free resumes.

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We have finally added denominations to our email alerts to make them more useful. You can now limit alerts to a category (Senior Pastor) in a specific denomination or in any denomination. We hope this will make email alerts more focused and useful.

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