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study which gives us some indication. In 1977 the Consumers Association
made a survey among a section of their members as to feelings on job
satisfaction. A proportion of the respondents (the exact figure is not
stated, but the total survey covered 24,363 persons) were clergymen,
and of those clergymen 58% said they were more than averagely satisfied
with their jobs, 86% would most likely choose the same occupation if
they had their working lives all over again, and 89% would most likely
carry on working even if they won £25O,OOO on the pools
(P13)
. All
those percentages came top of the respective tables, yet clergymen
were also bottom of the pay league table published in the same
survey. This study therefore appears to bear out our hypothesis
that at least with some jobs an inverse correlation may exist between
remuneration and job satisfaction. But care should be taken in inter-
preting these figures. First, the Consumers Association themselves
insert a 'small word of warning' intimating that their sample is not
typical of the population as a whole; second, we do not know enouqh
about the clergyman content to know how many were Church of England,
or Church of England from the Diocese of Bradford; and third, even if
correlation is established it does not necessarily follow that it is
linear .
Whilst the above reasoning is theoretical - adopted for the pur-
pose of this study to emphasise the paucity of knowledge in this area
of diocesan finance - it does have some foundation in published research;
Lawler
(B19)
discussing the Model of the Determinants of Pay Satisfaction
says "a person's perception of what his pay should be is somewhat influ-
enced by the nonmonetary outcomes he receives from his job...some non-
pay outcomes can partially substitute for pay outcomes and that, because
of this, the number of other outcomes received can affect what a person
feels his pay should be. ... This aspect of the model can explain the
fact that some people are satisfied with their pay even though it is
