Often a church when hiring goes through the usual hiring practices of a business but that's where it stops. Annual revisions of salary, job performance meetings and such just don't happen and within years you have a church that is shocked when they once again have to fill the position and find that the salary they are paying is greatly out of date. The American Guild of Organists has created a very accurate salary guide with a link to another site that will give adjusted amounts based upon where you are working. Please visit the group web site at the address below and check out reference links to access this information. The basic "church job " is considered by many churches to involve 3 hours...divided between the worship service and the choir rehearsal...in reality even a bare-bones job like this is actually 11 hours, and it only grows from there. -- noel jones, aago athens, tennessee, usa ------------------------------- frog music press rodgers organ users group www.frogmusic.com