It's Time for Fall Evaluations and New Salaries

We appreciate the ministry of supervision you provide our missionaries! One time a year, Reliant missionaries and supervisors evaluate their jobs and review their performance. After evaluations are completed, Reliant Missionary Resources and local supervisors work together to set salaries for the coming year. This year, we will also have the Reliant Missionaries do an evaluation of their supervisor. This is meant to bring open communication between missionary and supervisor and to be a safe place for talking through the supervisor/missionary relationship.

Salary Setting

The Reliant board has approved a 3% raise for all Reliant missionaries for 2017. Then if a missionary seems ready to move up into a new Missionary Level, has been ordained or commissioned or otherwise seems to warrant a higher salary increase based off your review, Mike Swan, Missionary Resources director, will discuss those with your church/ministry leadership in November. 

Salary levels and salaries will be determined by several key factors. To determine the Ministry Level, we consider scope and burden of responsibility, formal training and years of experience related to the role. New salaries are based on these factors, as well as cost-of-living factors (inflation and geography) and job performance. 

Dates to keep in mind

• Now-November 1: Complete the evaluation of your Reliant Missionaries and share with hr@reliant.org.

• November 1: Deadline for Reliant to receive your evaluation.
• November 2-30: Schedule with Mike Swann a time for Compensation Review.
  • Reliant will send out a follow-up email in November to schedule this time.
• December 15: Compensation Notices go out to missionaries.
• January 15: Deadline for missionaries to accept new salaries.

What to do next?

1. Create a copy of the performance evaluation.

1. • If you have trouble accessing the Google form, please contact hr@reliant.org.
2. Complete one form for each missionary you supervise.
   
   • Complete the first tab of the evaluation form for ALL missionaries. 
   • If you believe that it may be close to time for a promotion to a new staff level, complete either the Missionary tab or the Pastor/Minister/Ministry Supervisor tab, depending on their staff level. If they are not close to a promotion, you may skip this step. 
   • Meet with the missionary you are supervising.
   • With regard to how much of the evaluation you share with that missionary, we do not have a policy. However, the evaluation is an excellent tool for feedback and growth. Passionate missionaries like to know how they are doing and how they can grow. 
     
     
3. Share completed evaluations with hr@reliant.org by Sunday, November 1.
   
   
4. Please be available for a phone call with Mike Swann or Cori Crawford Van Oss between November 2-30. These calls typically last 20-30 minutes. We will review together changes needed in ministry levels and salaries. We will send out a sign-up for times as November approaches. 
    
5. The missionaries will be notified of their new salary offers on Staffnet in mid-December. January 15 is the missionary's deadline for accepting the offer and setting new support goals.