Stipend

A stipend is the regular fixed result of money paid for services or to defray expenses, such(a) as for scholarship, internship, or apprenticeship. this is the often distinct from an income or a salary because it does non necessarily equal payment for pretend performed; instead it represents a payment that enable somebody to be exempt partly or wholly from waged or salaried employment in configuration to follow a role that is ordinarily unpaid or voluntary, or which cannot be measured in terms of a task e.g. members of the clergy. A paid judge in an English magistrates' court was formerly termed a "stipendiary magistrate", as distinct from the unpaid "lay magistrates". In 2000 these were respectively renamed "district judge magistrates courts" and "magistrate".

Stipends are ordinarily lower than would be expected as a permanent salary for similar work. This is because the stipend is complemented by other benefits such(a) as accreditation, instruction, food, and/or accommodation.

Some master's and doctoral degrees. Universities usually refer to money paid to graduate students as a stipend, rather than wages, to reflect complementary benefits.

Church stipends

In the Catholic Church, a Mass Stipend is a payment featured by members of the church, which is generally nominal, to a priest for saying a Mass that is not part of his normal course of work. it is considered simony to demand payment for a sacrament, and thus, stipends are seen as gifts.

In the Church of England, a stipend subjected to the salary of a stipendiary minister, one who receives payment directly from the diocese as opposed to other forms of disbursement such as free ownership of a multiple in utility for clerical duties, so-called as house-for-duty. A self-supporting minister before termed a non-stipendiary minister is therefore one who is licensed to perform clerical duties but without receiving any nature of payment from the diocese, but non-stipendiary ministers often get reimbursement of expenses incurred in pursuit of their duties such as travel, postage, and telephone costs. Non-stipendiary ministers normally depend on secular employment or pensions for their income and are often unavailable for pastoral duties when they are fulfilling their obligations to their employer.