Yes--it is true that some small churches live like that.

My comment was based on most mainline Protestant churches---and I think you knew that.

 The Anglican pastor down the street gets 80K a year.  The Lutheran minister up the street from me gets 60K a year--and all this with housing, education allowances, etc.  How do I know this?  I have family and friends who are not Catholic.  They show me the financial reports of their churches. 

This is at least double and in some cases far more than double than what any priest gets, even considering they get free housing.  Don't get on your high horse about priests living off their parishioners unless you want to say the same thing about the other mainlines.