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Catholic parishes, if they can't get volunteers, pay musicians and singers and choir directors. The parishes have to provide music for Sunday Mass. It is a mandate from the Vatican. The pay varies. Wealthy parishes pay a lot more of course, but even the poorest of parishes usually pay the cantor and accompanist. I am not sure what they pay right now at the church I work at but 10 years ago, the pay was $40 for accompanists and singers and $75 for choir directors for each Mass. They are paid $25 for rehearsals. Every year, a cost of living increase is added on to the wages of those who have worked there for over a year. I direct two choirs and get paid. At the church I work at, I am allowed to use some of my own compositions, which is pretty cool because I can field test the congregational music I write.