In modern churches, it is common for staff to wear multiple hats—dividing their time and responsibilities across various ministries. Generating accurate and relevant salary reports for these hybrid employees has been challenging for leaders, until now!
To address this challenge head-on, ChurchSalary 3.0 created a new innovative Hybrid Reports application, designed to seamlessly combine compensation data from up to three different positions.
The Challenge of Hybrid Roles
Traditional salary reporting often struggles to account for the blended responsibilities of hybrid employees. How do you accurately assess compensation when a staff member serves as both a Worship Pastor and a Children's Pastor? ChurchSalary 3.0 recognizes this common scenario and offers a solution that allows churches to precisely model these unique roles.
There are three innovations that make hybrid reports possible.
1. Hybrid Employee Profiles
The new Dashboard in ChurchSalary 3.0 allows you to create and save employee profiles. Selecting a profile and clicking on an app button will automatically use that employee as the basis of a new report.
Within the Employee Profile form, users can assign multiple position types to a single employee and define the time or effort dedicated to each role as a percentage. For example, an "Associate Worship & Children's Pastor" could be configured as 50% Associate Pastor, 30% Worship Pastor, and 20% Children's Pastor.
2. Report Tabs
Because every Hybrid Report is a combination of 2 to 3 positions, the new app introduces tabs that allow you to toggle between standalone position reports and the hybrid report. Tabs essentially allow us the ability to show you up to 4 salary reports on one screen. Downloading a Hybrid Report will collate all of these reports into one giant PDF.
Toggling between the tabs allows you to compare and contrast pay for each of the 2–3 positions on their own versus the hybridized figures.
3. Weighted Calculations
We redesigned the Salary Report app under the hood to expand our mathematical formulas so that they can seamlessly calculate weighted percentiles and averages. This ensures that the salary ranges are calculated from the ground up based on employees from across multiple position types.
Creating weighted percentile calculations is rather tricky. In a nutshell, the Hybrid Report app, weighs each matching employee’s salary based on both the weight of each position (e.g., 20% children’s pastor and 30% worship pastor) and differences in the sample size of each employee type (e.g., 150 children’s pastors and 80 worship pastors). This allows us to model the salary of an array for similar employees serving at similar churches and calculate a set of percentiles (10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th).
Calculating weighted averages is more straightforward. Essentially, the Hybrid Report app applies the percentage weights you select for each position to the underlying employees. This ensures that every numerical insight in the hybrid tab of your report, from overall salary summaries to localized recommendations, is an estimated average for your custom hybrid employee.
Why Hybrid Reports Matter
The introduction of Hybrid Reports in ChurchSalary 3.0 is a significant leap forward for churches seeking accurate and relevant compensation data. It acknowledges the evolving nature of church staffing and provides a powerful tool for:
- Precise Compensation Planning: Churches can now generate salary reports that truly reflect the complexities of hybrid roles, leading to more equitable and competitive compensation packages.
- Enhanced Data Accuracy: By integrating hybrid employee data into both hybrid and standalone reports, ChurchSalary 3.0 provides a more robust and representative dataset.
- Increased Flexibility: The ability to mix, match, and weigh up to three positions offers unprecedented flexibility in modeling unique staff roles.
- New ChurchSalary-Approved Hybrid Positions: This foundational change will allow ChurchSalary the ability to introduce new positions in the future by analyzing the recipes created by churches. If 1,000 churches are generating reports for an Associate Worship & Children's Pastor, we can add that as a ChurchSalary-approved position and bake that in as a dropdown option in every version of the Salary Report app.
In essence, ChurchSalary 3.0's Hybrid Reports app transforms the way churches approach compensation for their diverse and dedicated staff, making the process more precise, transparent, and ultimately, more helpful.
We want to hear your feedback though. How can we make the Hybrid Reports app better? What features would you like to see us incorporate in a future version of the app? And what are your most tricky hybrid employees to price?
