I don’t believe pastors are ever classified as statutory employees.
I highly appreciate your clarification of things in this thread. Helps quite a lot! I was paying more attention to the comment, "In the past I have received a 1099 for income as a contract worker (or similar title) in temporary church ministries." Therefore, I was assuming this was in fact, SCH C type work being referenced here. Thus my reference to "statutory employee" on the W-2.
