Does the Salvation Army pay female pastors? This tumblr post makes several claims about the Salvation Army: > Reasons not to donate to Salvation Army this holiday season: > > * They don’t pay their female pastors. (Their wages get added to their husbands’ paychecks.) > * They turn away gay people from homeless services and other programs. > * They fire people for having mental illnesses. > Focusing specifically on the first claim: is it true that the Salvation Army does not pay wages to female pastors, for work that male pastors would be paid for? Is this a practice globally, or only in certain regions? To the extent that the second part of the claim ("their wages get added to their husbands' paychecks") is true, how does this apply to unmarried women?

It's true but misleadingly written. Women pastors who are married to male pastors do indeed have their paychecks added to their husbands check. For reference, read this article, the relevant quote is

> In the Army’s case, the agreement for compensation is that the officer allowance be paid jointly to the husband—the check is written in his name. Officially, the wife is a “worker without expectation of remuneration,” and her husband receives 40 percent more of an allowance as a married man than he would as a single man.

Trying to disprove the idea that women's checks are added to their husbands by pointing out that unmarried women work there is irrelevant: it would not be possible to pay them through their husbands check when they have none. I do suggest reading the full article as it has some valuable insights on the matter as a whole.