Fall Evaluations and New Salaries

Supervisors, we appreciate the ministry of supervision you provide our missionaries! Once a year, Reliant missionaries and supervisors evaluate their jobs and review their performances. After evaluations are completed, Reliant Missionary Resources works together with supervisors to set updated salaries for the coming year.

Salary Setting

The Reliant board has approved a 3% raise for all Reliant missionaries for 2017. If a missionary seems to warrant an additional salary increase, Mike Swann, Missionary Resources director, will discuss that with your church/ministry leadership during a compensation review conversation in November. Missionary staff 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. 

Please be sure to indicate when the opportunity for additional salary increases exist in the evaluation. The types of things to note include:

• Transitions into new Missionary Levels
• New credentialing related to the ministry, such as ordination, commissioning or completion of educational degrees and professional licensing
• Exemplary performance 
• Additional responsibility

Dates to keep in mind

• October 1 - November 1: Evaluations – Complete an Evaluation of each of your Reliant missionaries and submit by sharing with Agustina.Karpiuk@reliant.org. 

• November 1: Deadline for Reliant to receive your evaluations.
• November 1-30: Compensation Review conversations between Mike Swann and local supervisors.
  • November 22: Deadline for scheduling an appointment with Mike Swann for the Compensation Review.
  • Reliant will send out a follow-up email in November to schedule this time. Please reach out to Agustina.Karpiuk@reliant.org at any time to get this on your calendar. 
• 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 spreadsheet.

1. 1. If you have trouble accessing the Google form, please contact Agustina.Karpiuk@reliant.org.
2. Complete one performance evaluation spreadsheet for each missionary you supervise.
   1. First Tab of Evaluation – This must be fully completed for each missionary you oversee. 
   2. Second and/or Third Tab of Evaluation – These are to be completed for missionaries if you believe they may be close to 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 these tabs. 
3. Meet with the missionary you are supervising and provide him/her feedback.
   
   1. Reliant carries the value that each missionary receives an annual evaluation of their progress, performance and fruitfulness. Missionaries need to receive regular constructive feedback regarding their performances. If you handle this feedback in another context, that is great. The minimum commitment of Reliant's Partner Organizations is to give solid feedback at least once a year. 
4. Share completed evaluations with Agustina.Karpiuk@reliant.org by November 1.
5. Schedule a Compensation Review call with Mike Swann. These are done between November 1-30, and each call typically last 20-30 minutes. We will review together changes needed in ministry levels and salaries. We will send out a sign-up reminder in late October. Feel free to reach out to Agustina.Karpiuk@reliant.org if you would like to schedule that call sooner. 
6. Notification of New Salary offers go the missionaries on December 15. January 15 is the missionary's deadline for accepting the offer and setting new support goals.

Ministry Experience Evaluation

Beginning in the fall of 2017, missionaries will share with Reliant an evaluation called Missionary Evaluation of Ministry Experience. This link provides more information.