verger
Vergers perform administrative duties for churches and parishes, ensure equipment maintenance and support the parish priest or other superiors. They also perform assisting duties before and after church service such as tidying, readying the equipment and supporting the priest.
verger vergers perform administrative duties for churches and parishes, ensure equipment maintenance and support the parish priest or other superiors. The role shows moderate AI exposure (0.50 on a 0-1 scale) — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. The most in-demand skills for the role include canon law, accounting techniques, Bible texts, maintain storage facilities, keep task records.
Pay in the UK
UK: median £28,950 a year for Caretakers (ONS ASHE 2025, full-time)
Middle half of full-time jobs: £25,678 to £32,942 a year
UK jobs are grouped differently; this is the closest UK occupation group (ONS SOC 2020 6232). ONS rates this estimate precise. 2025 provisional figures; ONS revises them a year later. Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Open Government Licence)
Pay in India (occupation group)
Average monthly earnings of salaried employees in the occupation group “Service and sales workers” in India, from the Government of India's Periodic Labour Force Survey (January–December 2025). It covers everyone in this group, not only verger, and it is not US pay converted to rupees.
Source: MoSPI (Government of India), Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2025, Table 51 — average wage/salary earnings of regular wage/salaried employees, NCO-2015 division 5. Official India data gives one average per occupation group: there are no official India figures for single careers, experience levels or cities. Read the report
Top skills
Frequently asked questions
What does verger do?
Vergers perform administrative duties for churches and parishes, ensure equipment maintenance and support the parish priest or other superiors. They also perform assisting duties before and after church service such as tidying, readying the equipment and supporting the priest.
What skills does verger need?
The most in-demand skills for this role include canon law, accounting techniques, Bible texts, maintain storage facilities, keep task records, ensure equipment availability. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.
Will AI replace verger?
Our AI-durability model gives verger a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.