E&P Salary story

Story about a survey of newspaper salaries...

Sports editor salaries are up about 15.5 percent from five years ago, on average, to just over $52,000...

Lots of low salary news, too...

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002912923

 

well that just ruined my fucking day.

 

Yup, mine too.

 

At least now I know I'm not the only one getting screwed! Somehow, though it doesn't make me feel all that much better about my pay.

 

I almost puked.

 

I don't think salary is the biggest issue.

I think the larger concern should be working conditions. A $52,000 median salary for a sports editor actually sounds fair to me, but the late nights and weekends and loads of deadline stress and so forth aren't worth it.

That's why I went the freelance route. It wasn't the salary. I make about what I made before I quit my job in February. But I have almost no stress and a lot of leisure and family time. I can't put a price on that. I'm much happier and don't know whether I'd give up the happiness for twice what I'm making now.

 

I puked because I'm making waaaaay below the starting average salary..and yet here I am...

 

Yes! Only a couple more years until I'm making the average starting salary! Maybe I'll get to eat at Waffle House that night

I knew I was in trouble a couple years ago when I saw a news story on CNN or somewhere talking about how many people were living below the poverty line -- and then defining "poverty" as making less than $30,000 a year.

 

How can that average starting salary be right? You'd have to start out at a large paper to make that much. I'd venture to say the vast majority of young reporters start out at smaller papers making under $25K.

 

All is proceeding as I have foreseen.