What are you getting for mileage?

Are you sure that's not what people are getting paid per mile? Wow.

 

Nope. The article guages the high and low prices per gallon in various countries around the world. Iran had gas for something like 41 cents a mile. Makes me want to travel and smuggle in a thousand barrells of gasoline into the USA.

 

i get 48.5 cents per mile.

but i work for a law firm, not a newspaper.

 

That's right around what we were getting in 1981, before our paper was sold to G*****T. I cannot believe it hasn't changed.

I currently work for a non-profit (no, not a newspaper), and we get 50.5 cents a mile.

 

I'm now at 47 cents a mile. Thank goodness for a generous company. And I still get to claim the difference on my taxes. Hello, $40.

 

22 cents a mile when I left the industry in 2005.

 

I'd be very interested to hear from our itemizing posters exactly how much money they're deducting.

 

Well, to begin with, you can only deduct the portion of your business expense that exceeds 2% of your adjusted gross income.

 

A mass e-mail went out last week that our rate was being raised from 35 to 38 cents. There was also a plea to do interviews by phone instead of face-to-face whenever possible.

 

newspaper...non-profit. What's the difference?

 

Tax breaks.

 

The papers I've been stringing for lately vary from nothing(!) to .35 - any paper that doesn't pay mileage only gets something I would be at otherwise working for somebody else, like a track meet. I cast a separate story for them and all, but I'm not going to drive for them for nothing.

Back when I had a full-time gig, it ranged from .15 from 2000 to about 2003, then it was .20, then .35 at a larger paper in 2005. Never got IRS rates, but there's no union in Texas and no contract saying you have to pay such-and-such.

I killed three cars going anywhere to cover sports, but I have plenty of clips to show for it, right?