Online editors get bigger paychecks
Jon Dube posted this about newspaper salaries:
Online editors enjoyed the biggest increases in base pay and incentives in 2006, according to the Newspaper Industry Compensation Survey.The position of online editor recorded an 8.1 percent increase in base pay from 2005 to 2006, and an 8.8 percent increase in total direct pay, which consists of salary and incentives, according to the NICS.
He mentions that the Inland Press Association will not release details about the survey. According to the IPA press release, “Specific salary figures and ranges from the confidential survey are released only to study participants.” Fair enough. I dug around on their site a little and found they have posted the 2001 numbers. Here is an Excel file (18 KB) of Table 2, with the salaries for 40 positions from publisher down to entry-level press operator.
Note that the survey concerns only newspapers with a circulation of 20,000 to 30,000. These are smaller papers; naturally, the salaries at medium and large newspapers are higher.
If you’re interested in this kind of thing, you might want to look at the University of Georgia surveys of (U.S.) journalism and mass communication. Some cheerful recent findings:
– One in five of the graduates with a job is writing and editing for the web and about one in 20 is designing and building web pages.– Six in 10 of the 2004 journalism and mass communication bachelor’s degree recipients reported that they held a full-time job on October 31, 2004. This represents the first increase in the level of full-time employment since the economic downturn after 2000.
– The level of unemployment for journalism and mass communication bachelor’s degree recipients declined, bringing them closer to their age cohort nationally than has been true any year since 2000.
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