Salary and housing allowance

by Barbara
(Tennessee )

We pay our Pastor 400 weekly and 300 month housing allowance. His housing is more than 300 month. Do we show wages the amount paid and housing allowance 3600 yearly. Or do we show actual housing allowance pastor incurred

Comments for Salary and housing allowance

Click here to add your own comments

Jan 05, 2019

addition question
by: Anonymous

HOw do you get the housing allowance to populate in box 14? We have it as a separate payroll item but it is being combine with his wages and nothing in box 14. How do I fix that?

Jan 25, 2017

Housing allowance & salary
by: Anonymous

The actual housing allowance is not for you to figure out. The pastor is to keep ALL receipts and expenses that he incurs for housing expenses and it is all calculated when he files his yearly income taxes.

In addition, his salary can be adjusted yearly as well as his housing allowance to accommodate any fluctuations in cost of living or his actual expenses.

Either way, it will probably never be accurate because those expenses change from month to month and year to year.

Jan 24, 2017

Salary and housing allowance
by: Lewis in NC

The W-2 form for your qualifying minister? Box 1=$20,800 ($400 X 52). Box 14 $3600 H.A. (optional). Would not include his/her actual expenses

Click here to add your own comments

Join in and write your own page! It's easy to do. How? Simply click here to return to Designating Housing Allowance.

If you want to DIY your payroll, I highly recommend you look at using Gusto! It is very user friendly and their support is awesome! Plus they know how to set up and maintain payrolls for churches and nonprofit organizations.

Note: I am a "partner" of Gusto, but as I have told you before ... I never recommend anything that we or our clients have not tried and love =)

Share this page:

What’s this?

Facebook

Enjoy this page? Please pay it forward. Here's how...

Would you prefer to share this page with others by linking to it?

Click on the HTML link code below.
Copy and paste it, adding a note of your own, into your blog, a Web page, forums, a blog comment, your Facebook account, or anywhere that someone would find this page valuable.