Occupation / job
Religious Workers, All Other
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
$45,280 against a $50,020 all-occupation midpoint puts Religious Workers, All Other $395 a month below the middle of the American labour market — close enough that the spread below matters more to your outcome than the headline does.
Employment as Religious Workers, All Other is 15,760 nationally. At that size a large city holds a working market and a small one holds almost none, so where you live changes the number of employers available to you by an order of magnitude.
Religious work suits people whose reason for doing it would survive the pay being lower, because the role is available at almost any hour and the boundary has to be set by you.
We carry no verified training length for Religious Workers, All Other — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
The quarters sit at $35,310 and $60,390 — 1.7x, or $2,090 a month apart. At that width the occupation contains genuinely different jobs, and which one you are being offered matters more than the title does.
A quarter of the field earns under $35,310 — $14,710 below the $50,020 the typical American job pays. That is the number to plan on for a first year, not the midpoint.
Avoid it if you need a boundary between your work and your private life; in this role the community does not observe one.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 15,760 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
At 1.7x, the distribution for Religious Workers, All Other is open enough that specialisation starts to pay. The distance from $35,310 to $60,390 is mostly what you can do that others in the same title cannot.
The middle half of this field earns between $35,310 and $60,390. That is $25,080 of range, with $45,280 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Getting to $60,390, the 75th percentile, is worth $15,110 a year more than the $45,280 midpoint and $25,080 more than the $35,310 a quarter of Religious Workers, All Other settle for.
The climb from $45,280 to $60,390 is $15,110, against $9,970 down to $35,310. Rather more of the range sits above the midpoint than below it, so the realistic upside in Religious Workers, All Other is larger than the realistic downside.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $21.76 at the midpoint for Religious Workers, All Other, $16.97 at the 25th percentile and $29.03 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Religious Workers, All Other for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $45,280 describes them.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $45,280 because we have no verified record of unpaid hours or out-of-pocket costs for this work, and we would rather convert honestly than adjust invented ones.
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