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Church Payroll Guide

About Church Payroll Guide

A volunteer treasurer can follow Church Payroll Guide's plain explanation of how to pay a pastor and church staff when payroll comes due.

The guides and calculators

This covers clergy payroll, SECA, the housing allowance and church payroll taxes. Two calculators help a pastor with personal numbers. You also get side-by-side tables that compare payroll, accounting and management software for churches, built from prices each company publishes.

About the company that provides the site

Church Payroll Guide comes from Shepherd & Vale Inc., 500 East Pratt Street, Suite 900, Baltimore, MD 21202, United States.

The site's income

If you submit your church's information using one of our forms, we share it with a payroll or bookkeeping company that serves churches so they can get back to you. We may get paid by those firms for the introduction. The calculators and guides don't cost anything, and they never request your details.

No tax advice, just information

All the material here is general information drawn from IRS and Social Security publications. Nothing here counts as tax, legal or accounting advice for the situation your church faces.

Contact

Write to office@churchpayrollguide.com.