Senior pastors who work 50 or more hours a week
Percent of U.S. Protestant senior pastors, 2010 (in percent)
Key finding
- Senior pastors who work 50 or more hours a week: 65%. Percent of senior pastors who work 50 or more hours a week
Source: Lifeway Research, Pastors' Long Work Hours Come at Expense of People, Ministry · Lifeway Research telephone survey of 1,002 randomly selected Protestant pastors. Article published 2010-01-05.
Get the chart, CSV, PNG and citation
Free account: full chart, CSV and PNG downloads, ready-to-paste citation, branded share image, and a discussion question for your team.
Questions about this statistic
What does this statistic show?
Senior pastors who work 50 or more hours a week: 65%. Percent of senior pastors who work 50 or more hours a week.
Who published this data?
Lifeway Research, 2010. Source: Lifeway Research, Pastors' Long Work Hours Come at Expense of People, Ministry (https://research.lifeway.com/2010/01/05/pastors-long-work-hours-come-at-expense-of-people-ministry/).
Where can I get the full data and a citation?
Create a free Leader Insights account to open the full chart, download CSV or PNG, copy a citation and save the statistic to your own library.
More Pastors & Staff statistics
- Black Protestant clergy who support women's leadership in the Black church Public Religion Research Institute, 2026
- Decline in churches insuring their senior pastor Leader Insights, 2026
- Drop in pastors considering quitting since the 2022 peak Leader Insights, 2026
About this data
Leader Insights collects statistics about U.S. churches from published research by organizations such as Lifeway Research, Barna Group, Springtide, the American Bible Society and PRRI. Every number is checked against the wording of the original source before it is published, and each statistic links back to the study it came from. Figures are reproduced from the publishers named above; see the source for full methodology.