No. Jehovah’s Witnesses have no paid clergy, and the elders who care for each congregation serve without a salary, most of them while holding ordinary jobs. A smaller group of full-time workers, including missionaries, special pioneers, traveling overseers and headquarters staff, receive food, lodging, health care and a small allowance, but no salary. Behind the practice is one line of the Gospel that Witnesses take at its word. Sending the apostles out, Jesus told them, “You received free, give free”…

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