How Small Churches Can Handle Payroll Without a Finance Team
Most payroll advice assumes you have someone whose job it is to handle payroll, an office manager, a bookkeeper, an HR person. A lot of small churches don’t have any of that. It might just be a bivocational pastor doing everything between sermons, or a volunteer treasurer squeezing payroll in around a full-time job elsewhere. […]
Payroll for Religious Organizations: Not Just for Christian Churches
Search “clergy tax rules” or “housing allowance” and almost everything that comes back is written as if “religious organization” only ever means “Christian church.” It doesn’t. The tax provisions that govern clergy payroll, dual tax status, housing allowance, automatic tax exemption, are written around the function a religious leader performs, not the specific faith tradition […]
Clergy Payroll Explained: What Makes Pastor Pay Different From Other Staff
If your church runs payroll for both a pastor and, say, an office administrator, and both are set up the same way in your payroll system, one of those two setups is almost certainly wrong. Clergy payroll and standard staff payroll aren’t variations on the same theme – they run on genuinely different rules, and […]
Church Payroll Services in Maryland: What Local Ministries Need to Know
Prospera is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, which means we’ve spent a lot of time in the weeds of Maryland-specific payroll rules – not just the federal clergy tax basics that apply everywhere, but the state-level details that trip up churches from Baltimore to Southern Maryland and everywhere in between. If your church is anywhere in […]
