how much do vicars get paid?

[lobbert]

i am talking your average british vicar.
how much?

[Ethel]

Around �17,000 per annum.

[Shadow Man]

Do they get double time on Sundays and Christmas day Ethel?

[Octavius]

Curates: �14,680-�15,820
Parish clergy (e.g. vicar): �16,420
Cathedral-based canons: �20,200
Junior bishops: �24,790
Diocesan bishops: �30,120
Archbishop of Canterbury: �55,660

Although vicars collect fees for conducting weddings and funerals, these go to the diocese to fund stipends.

[CushtyFred]

I suppose it depends how much the chore from the collection plate every sunday.

[Octavius]

Not really, it all goes into the church accounts and a payment is made to the diocese every month. The salary is then paid by the dioces to the Vicar. Any additional funds are for the running/maintenance of the church or for the diocese coffers, not the vicar.

[RATTER15]

They say money is the root of all evil!! they shouldnt soil their hands with it also they should all be prosecuted for misleading the public!!

Blood load of hypocrites!!!

[Pippa68]

They do get a lovely house to go with it, too.

[Octavius]

Well they get to live in it for a bit, until the bish makes them move to another parish. The nicety of the house depends on the location of the church.

[Pippa68]

I can only go on the houses I have seen, Oct.

The vicar I knew when I was a kid (my parents were in with the church back then) was gorgeous. The Reverend who married my ex hubby & I also had a splendid des res. A woman I knew who was married to a vicar had a huge abode.

All these were in different areas so you may be right.

[Octavius]

Ah well you see, I grew up in the darkest dreariest parts of East London. I aint�nt gentrified like what you is.

[Pippa68]

Aaaah yes. A council estate is much nicer when it is in the heart of a village in Surrey *what*.