{"id":126708,"date":"2024-02-07T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=126708"},"modified":"2024-02-07T19:34:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T00:34:05","slug":"church-times-clergy-minimum-stipends-to-grow-by-seven-per-cent-from-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=126708","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Clergy minimum stipends to grow by seven per cent from April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 7% increase in the National Minimum Stipend (NMS), set to come into effect in April, has been welcomed by the trade union Unite.<\/p>\n<p>The increase, agreed by the Archbishops\u2019 Council, acting as the Central Stipends Authority (CSA), will see the minimum stipend jump from \u00a326,134 to \u00a328,670.<\/p>\n<p>Last July, the CSA announced a five-per-cent increase for 2024. The greater uplift to seven per cent has been made possible because dioceses, which will have to fund the stipends, need pay less into the Church of England pensions scheme. In December, the Pensions Board announced a drop in the contribution rate by three percentage points from April this year: to 25 per cent of the previous year\u2019s National Minimum Stipend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2024\/9-february\/news\/uk\/clergy-stipends-to-grow-by-seven-per-cent-from-april\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A seven-per-cent increase in the National Minimum Stipend (NMS), set to come into effect in April, has been welcomed by the trade union Unite <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jroZM9yEUY\">https:\/\/t.co\/jroZM9yEUY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1755175642780307478?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 7% increase in the National Minimum Stipend (NMS), set to come into effect in April, has been welcomed by the trade union Unite. The increase, agreed by the Archbishops\u2019 Council, acting as the Central Stipends Authority (CSA), will see<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=126708\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,149,435,184,108,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","category-economy","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126708"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126713,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126708\/revisions\/126713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}