CLERICAL STIPENDS IN BRITAIN
“LESS THAN SKILLED MANUAL LABOURERS” LONDON, Feb. 17. Clergymen in Britain to-day are paid less than skilled manual labourers, and unless something is. done speedily to increase their stipends there might be no clergy left in another generation, said Mr George Groyder, of Oxford, addressing the Church Assembly. Mr Groyder said that in 1938 the average stipend of benefited clergymen was £8 a week, and in 1949 £9. Between 1938 and 1949 the average workman’s weekly wage had risen from £3 10s to £7, but in that period the cost of living had gone up to 84 per cent. In real Wages,, therefore, the income of the clergy had fallen by 72 per cent., while that of the workers had risen by 16 per cent.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 107, 18 February 1950, Page 5
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