Two prices. Both on this page.
No "contact us for a quote." If you have to call to find out what something costs, the price depends on how you look. Ours doesn't.
$1,997/month
Full-time. 40 hours a week. One client: you.
Broad coverage across administration, communication, records, and content distribution. Trained on your tools and your workflows.
- Inbox triage and drafted replies in your voice
- Calendar management and meeting prep
- Bulletin, service order, slides, weekly email
- Volunteer scheduling, reminders, chasing no-replies
- Guest follow-up on a schedule, every week
- Database and attendance cleanup, ChMS hygiene
- Giving records, thank-you letters, year-end statements
- Event and registration logistics
- Social scheduling, posting, and replying
- Invoicing, receivables follow-up, budget tracking
- Board packets, minutes, annual report assembly
- Writing down your processes as they learn them
$2,997/month
Full-time. 40 hours a week. One trained discipline at a professional level.
Recruited to order against your specific role. Three to four week search. We do not keep a bench, so you get the right person instead of the available one.
- Bookkeeping and accounting, including church fund accounting, QuickBooks, and Xero
- Paid ads management, Meta and Google
- Video editing
- Graphic design
- WordPress and web development
- Email marketing and automation builds
- Data analysis and reporting
- Senior executive assistant, a real EA rather than general admin
Setup and matching fee: $1,000, one time. Waived on a six-month commitment.
That covers the search, the interviews against your list, the scope document, and onboarding. Commit to six months and it comes off entirely.
Price it against the hire you are not making.
The right comparison is not another offshore agency. It is the job posting sitting in your drafts folder that you have not published because you already know what it costs.
| What you would hire | Hours/week | Monthly cost | Per hour |
|---|---|---|---|
| US part-time church admin | 25 | ~$2,570 | ~$23.80 |
| US full-time church administrator | 40 | ~$4,800 | ~$27.75 |
| CoLabor co-laborer | 40 | $1,997 | ~$11.54 |
US figures are fully loaded: wages plus payroll taxes, benefits, workers compensation, equipment, and paid time off. The number on the offer letter is always lower than the number that leaves your account.
Read the first row again. A part-time admin at 25 hours costs you about $573 a month more than a co-laborer at 40 hours.
And with CoLabor there is no payroll to run, no benefits to administer, no unemployment insurance, no severance exposure, no laptop to buy, and no 17-day-long search that ends with two applicants.
Your rate goes up 5% a year. Here is exactly why.
Every co-laborer gets a 5% raise every year. Not tied to a review cycle we could quietly skip. Automatic.
Your rate moves 5% at the same time, on your engagement anniversary, so that raise is funded by the business instead of by cutting corners on your service.
On $1,997, that is about $100 a month in year two. We would rather you see that number here, now, than discover it on an invoice.
A company that gives raises and never raises prices is doing one of two things: absorbing it until the service degrades, or not actually giving the raises.
Some things we will not do for you, and you should want it that way.
We never hold banking credentials.
No co-laborer at any tier holds banking credentials or initiates a payment or transfer. Not if you ask. Not if you insist. Bookkeeping specialists get read-only bank feeds and nothing more. A co-laborer is never the sole administrator on any account you own.
If a staffing company will hand your bank login to a remote worker because you requested it, ask yourself what else they will do because somebody requested it.
We never do pastoral care.
Benevolence requests, counseling inquiries, member conflict, and anything confessional routes to a named person on your staff. Immediately, every time.
Someone in your congregation reaching out in a hard week should reach a pastor. That is your job, and it is not one we will pretend to cover for $1,997.
We are never in the building.
Chairs do not set themselves up. Somebody has to greet at the door, fold the bulletin, run sound, count the offering, and answer when someone walks in during office hours. A co-laborer does none of that.
Naming what remote cannot do is the only reason you should believe us about the rest.
We also do not sign or commit on your behalf, give legal, tax, or HR advice, or send communication as you without your review. Drafting in your voice is in scope. Sending unreviewed is not.
Two prices, one call.
Bring last week and we will tell you which tier you actually need. Often it is the cheaper one.
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