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Don't whether it's because we aren't that well off but I actually enjoy a bit of bargain hunting, bit of a thrill when I can get something cheaper than I expected.

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That's a pretty good attitude Comeandgo, though I still check the prices and look in the reduced pile before buying.

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51% richer 49% poorer according to their reckoning.

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In our church service last year our vicar was talking of wealth,it was an eye opener when she told us she Only got £19.000 a Year and free accommodation.Her Free accommodation is i would say in the £600.000 price bracket .
My Husbands pension is less than half of that and we have survived on it for the last 5 years .Savings have dwindled but at least we have not had to be means tested by the SS.

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There's nothing in life that I want but can't afford so.............I'm content.

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Considering the work that vicars do, that's hardly being well paid. Still, I suppose that the ministry is a vocation rather than a job.

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Sounds like a fortune to me. And they ask us to put money on the plate

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Julie, it would be interesting to know how many hours they work. Not just giving a couple of sermons to write and deliver on a Sunday - births, marriages, deaths, visits, probably loads of boring committee meetings etc..

I expect if you added all that up, the hourly rate isn't great. I also hear that the C of E does not regard their pay as 'salary', but an income sufficient to allow an adequate lifestyle. And the manse? Not always a modern executive dwelling, but often an old, unnecassarily large, uncomfortable house.

I don't think you can call them over-paid. Not like some of these "Tele evangelists" .

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I was just comparing it with my husband who starts at 5am, works over 60 hours a week. His wages fall below NMW as he is paid a salary each month which when you work out his hourly rate is just about £4 an hour. I don't begrudge anyone anything would just like a fair wage for those down here working their socks off for very little.

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I know for a fact vicars are very badly paid for the work they do. My eldest daughter is a vicar, and she works her socks off for her parish, and gets paid a pittance.