| Annual cost of living raise | 56 | 26% |
| Annual general raise | 48 | 22% |
| Rasie once every two years | 10 | 5% |
| Raise occasionally | 48 | 22% |
| Rasie once every five years | 0 | 0% |
| Rasie if I ask for one | 9 | 4% |
| Rasie never | 27 | 12% |
| Other | 21 | 10% |
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| Usually I do but actually depends on economy. | 1 | 0% |
| When they decide to take it up. It has been 6 years since a riase. | 1 | 0% |
| In interim ministry, I' with a church about 18 months. They pay me what they paid the last preacher. There are no raises. In full-time work, my contract called for cost of living raise and consideration for a merit with a discussion as to why it was | 1 | 0% |
| Don't know. | 1 | 0% |
| If the congregation has the funds, it is possible that I will get a raised based on this and a yearly review meeting with the elders | 1 | 0% |
| Not preaching full time now | 1 | 0% |
| financial gifts through the year | 1 | 0% |
| Not there long enough yet to see | 1 | 0% |
| they have kept up with my health insurance, which is more than a cost of living increase | 1 | 0% |
| They prefe4 bonus and no raise... | 1 | 0% |
| Helping one church while working for another. They treat me good and vary the raises generally annually | 1 | 0% |
| Don't know- reached one year anniversary and nothing was said | 1 | 0% |
| Once because of complaints about my cell it service and a forced upgrade to new carrier | 1 | 0% |
| Small congregation. Been here for 2.5 years. No raise yet. | 1 | 0% |
| Seven years since last raise. | 1 | 0% |
| Raise upon contract renewal/reaffirmation | 1 | 0% |
| I'm supposed to receive an annual cost of living raise, but it happens only every 3 years or so. | 1 | 0% |
| Church pays health insurance and it increases every year. | 1 | 0% |
| Got one raise in seven years | 1 | 0% |
| I am paid according to the state teacher salary schedule. It has periodic step increases based on experience and COLA as the state decides. This is the most objective arrangement I have seen for minister salaries. | 1 | 0% |
| Usually a raise and added time off. After 7 years it is suggested to get summer off full pay. Sabbatical | 1 | 0% |