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Process is Primary! Compensation is about more than numbers. Your compensation policies and practices are a way of living your values. We include reminders here about process, local wage rates, changes in cost of living, ministerial salaries, and part-time positions.Leader Resource | October 30, 2025 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Benefits & Compensation for Congregations, Staffing & SupervisionPage/Article -
UUA Recommended Salary Ranges by Geo Index (location) are provided for four congregational sizes at six job levels.Leader Resource | By Jan Gartner, Sean Griffin | October 30, 2025 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Benefits & Compensation for Congregations, Staffing & SupervisionPage/Article -
Each year, we update our salary program info. This page houses a record of changes in salary structure and other adjustments in recent years.Leader Resource | By Jan Gartner | October 30, 2025 (reviewed October 2025) | From LeaderLabTagged as: Benefits & Compensation for Congregations, Staffing & SupervisionPage/Article -
Our Recommended Salary Ranges are based on job levels, not specific job titles. Each job level is described by multiple characteristics.Leader Resource | By Jan Gartner | October 30, 2025 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Benefits & Compensation for CongregationsPage/Article -
Congregational Size Profiles begin with membership, but also take into account operating expenses and typical staffing. Our four size profiles contain some overlap.Leader Resource | By Jan Gartner | October 30, 2025 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Benefits & Compensation for Congregations, Staffing & SupervisionPage/Article -
Our Geo Index Listing adjusts recommended salaries to account for prevailing wage rates in a congregation's location.Leader Resource | By Jan Gartner | October 30, 2025 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Benefits & Compensation for CongregationsPage/Article -
The UUA offers a Congregational Salary Program as a service to congregational leaders. Our approach emphasizes process and values, with recommended salary ranges provided for six job levels in four congregational size profiles.Leader Resource | By Jan Gartner, Sean Griffin | October 30, 2025 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Benefits & Compensation for Congregations, Staffing & SupervisionPage/Article -
Setting salaries is about more than picking numbers. Let our list of policies and practices guide you in creating a salary program driven by process and values. Of the items listed below, what are you already doing well? Which practices might you work to incorporate next?Leader Resource | October 30, 2025 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Benefits & Compensation for CongregationsPage/Article -
Our Ruler Method provides a consistent approach to placing employee salaries with in our recommended ranges. Use it mathematically or simply conceptually.Leader Resource | October 20, 2025 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Benefits & Compensation for Congregations, Staffing & SupervisionPage/Article -
The UUA Office of Church Staff Finances provides Compensation Consultants and (new in summer 2024) Treasurer Support Team are available to help congregational leaders with needs related to compensation and finances.Leader Resource | By Jan Gartner | April 2, 2025 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Benefits & Compensation for Congregations, Staffing & SupervisionPage/Article -
Do some of your employees get their health insurance from a source other than the congregation? Learn what's legal when it comes to reimbursing them.September 5, 2024 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Benefits & Compensation for Congregations, Finance for CongregationsPage/Article -
A 120 member congregation sets and meets a goal of a 20% pledge increase to bring their staff up to UUA compensation guidelines.Congregational Story | By Cedar Valley Unitarian Universalists, Cedar Falls, IA | March 15, 2024 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Benefits & Compensation for Congregations, Stewardship for CongregationsPage/Article -
Worker classification is an important legal matter. Learn to determine which of your workers must be treated as employees versus who might be an independent contractor. Know the requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act and whether each of your employees is nonexempt or exempt.Leader Resource | By Sean Griffin, Jan Gartner | March 7, 2024 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Benefits & Compensation for Congregations, Staffing & SupervisionPage/Article -
Sabbaticals provide a much-needed time for renewal and reconnection with yourself and your reasons for doing the work you do. All of us deserve to have a chance to return to our whole selves from time to time.By Megan Foley | December 19, 2023 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Benefits & Compensation for CongregationsPage/Article -
For congregations that own a parsonage, consider the possibilities as well as implications for structuring a ministerial agreement.Leader Resource | By Sean Griffin, Jan Gartner | August 29, 2023 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Benefits & Compensation for Congregations, Support for MinistersPage/Article -
Vision Plan If you enroll in Guardian Dental, vision benefits are covered through EyeMed at no extra charge. Keep in mind that the companies are separate—Guardian does Dental; EyeMed does Vision. You will receive an EyeMed ID card in the mail directly from EyeMed. Please read this EyeMed Benefits...Utility | April 4, 2023Tagged as: Benefits & Compensation for CongregationsPage/Article
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The UUA is pleased to offer member congregations Hospital Indemnity Insurance through Guardian.Utility | November 1, 2022Tagged as: Benefits & Compensation for CongregationsPage/Article
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Health Plan Enrollment Form (online) Health Plan Dependent Enrollment Form (online) Dental Enrollment form (PDF) for all states except Texas Dental Enrollment form (PDF) for Texas residents only Life and Long-Term Disability (LTD) Enrollment Form (PDF) Report Employee benefit changes (online) Rep...Utility | October 26, 2021Tagged as: Benefits & Compensation for CongregationsPage/Article
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UU Retirement Plan resources for admins responsible for remitting contributions and posting hours worked.Utility | October 20, 2021Tagged as: Benefits & Compensation for CongregationsPage/Article
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How can your congregation be a good employer during the COVID-19 outbreak? Caring for staff is an opportunity to model your values and spirit for the congregation, to demonstrate the kindness, creativity, and interdependence that these days ask of us....By Jan Gartner | August 27, 2021 | From LeaderLabTagged as: #COVID19, Benefits & Compensation for Congregations, Finance for Congregations, Staffing & SupervisionPage/Article