Salaries & Remuneration

Stipends and salaries | Fringe benefits | Accommodation arrangements | Superannuation

Stipends and salaries

These documents set out the stipends and salaries payable to ministers, home missionaries and deaconesses for the years indicated. They also set out other applicable allowances approved by the Assembly.

• Stipends & Salaries for 2009 (PDF 139Kb)
• Stipends & Salaries for 2010
• Stipends & Salaries for 2011
  

Fringe benefits

The following links provide an explanatory paper on Fringe Benefits for ministerial personnel and congregations in the Presbyterian Church NSW, and a spreadsheet to calculate GST recovery on fringe benefits.

• Fringe Benefits Tax Explanation
• GST Recovery Worksheet

Accommodation arrangements

The normal remuneration package for a minister or a home missionary includes some provision for accommodation. This may be through: (i) the rent-free occupation of a house owned by the church (generally called a “manse”); (ii) the rent-free occupation of a house leased by the church for the use of the minister; or (iii) a financial arrangement with the minister to enable him to live in his own home.

These alternatives are set out here as Accommodation Options.

Where a church wishes to build a new manse or consider the adequacy of a house that might be purchased as a manse, the Committee of Management should work through this paper: Manse Design Considerations. 

Superannuation

Superannuation arrangements for Presbyterian ministers in NSW are administered by AMP, however contributions are collected by the Church Offices. This collection will be made monthly by direct debit from the congregation or agency’s bank account for both the employer and employee contributions. A schedule is mailed to all treasurers prior to the start of each calendar year showing the Minister’s stipend (based on Ministry & Mission records) and the contributions for:

1. Employer SGC @ 9%.
2. Employer additional contribution @ 6%.
3. Employee contribution @ the Ministers nominated amount.
4. Salary sacrifice @ the Ministers nominated amount.

Where ministers are paid directly by Church Offices, the employee contribution and salary sacrifice (if any) is processed by Church Offfices payroll. If a church changes ministers, or there is a change to the appropriate deductions, please contact ssmith@pcnsw.org.au to cancel or commence the superannuation direct debit. 

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