The Healthy Church Staff Podcast
The Benefits Package Your Church Can't Afford Not to Offer
Jun 01, 2026
Episode 626
In this episode, Todd Rhoades discusses creative, low-cost benefits that churches can offer to attract and retain staff without matching corporate salaries. He emphasizes the importance of investing in staff through professional development, mental health days, flexible schedules, and other non-monetary perks that show employees they are valued as individuals.
• Churches struggle to compete with corporate salaries.
• Discussing low-cost, high-impact perks for church staff.
• Offering professional development funds, personal growth days, and flexible schedules.
• Providing creative benefits like summer Fridays and sabbaticals.
• The importance of valuing staff beyond their productivity.
• Key findings from church staff health assessment.
• Encouragement to ask staff for non-monetary benefit suggestions.
• Rhoades offers compensation and benefits analysis services for churches.
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