The Church of Scientology network operates as a multinational conglomerate of companies with personnel, executives, organizational charts, chains of command, policies and orders.
"Religious Technology Center is the most powerful executive organization within the Scientology empire, and its current chairman, David Miscavige, is widely recognized as the effective head of the church."
Hierarchy of staff
Church of Scientology personnel are bound by policy as written by L. Ron Hubbard and by orders from any senior. Each staff member is junior to those above them on the organizational chart (called an "org board") and is senior to those under them.
Scientology members (also called "public") are those individuals who are not on staff, who pay the organization for training or auditing services, and who live and work separately from the Church of Scientology. Members defer to all staff personnel, who are seen as their seniors. All members and staff defer to Sea Org staff. Even though at-large members are not part of the organization proper, they are ranked within the entire chain of command and are frequently pressed into service for clerical or promotional tasks or recruiting new members. Members who recruit people for Scientology services are called "field staff members" (FSM) and are paid a commission of 10–15% of the amount the new person pays.[1]
"The recruit is transformed from a client to a follower and from a follower to a deployable agent."
Employment structure
Staff contracts
Staff sign employment contracts, though in recent years these contracts label them as volunteers or "religious workers" to circumvent labor laws because staff are almost universally paid less than locally mandated minimum wage. However, all organizational policies written by L. Ron Hubbard refer to such workers as "staff".[2]
These contracts have lengthy durations. At a Class V organization, a contract may be as short as 2.5 years; extending to 5 years or more if they are sent to Flag Service Org for extensive training. Sea Org members sign billion-year contracts; effectively a perpetual contract with no expiration date. Sea Org personnel live in communal housing; Class V staff make their own living arrangements and sometimes even have second jobs.
Pay
Staff hold posts where they are either given a small fixed allowance (Sea Org) or are paid based on a share-percentage of the organization's weekly gross receipts.[2]
Notable Scientology officials
This section contains a select list of some of the current and former officials, staff or notable insiders of Scientology organizations.
Bob Adams:
Gerry Armstrong:
Vicki Aznaran and Richard Aznaran:
Annie Broeker:
Pat Broeker:
John Brousseau:
John Carmichael:
Tommy Davis:
Jessica Feshbach:
David Gaiman:
Leisa Goodman:
Jefferson Hawkins:
Marc and Claire Headley:
L. Ron Hubbard:
Mary Sue Hubbard:
Mark Ingber:
Heber Jentzsch:
David Mayo:
Warren McShane:
See also
- List of Scientologists
Further reading
References
- Auditing as a Career American Saint Hill Organization, Church of Scientology^
- Gaétan Pouliot. Church of Scientology staffer in Quebec City earned $70 for nearly 39 hours of work, document shows CBC News, June 13, 2018^
- Robert Farley. The unperson