Salary SurveySubmitted by pdxtvwatcher on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 1:33pm.
This should be a fun one... How much money do you make? Keep it anonymous, of course. Example: Medium: Radio PLEASE be honest, folks. Lynn might whack the thread if it gets out of control, or if it appears that too many people are posting BS. ( topics: General Media )
Medium: TV Medium: TV That's almost what I made with a little less experience 15 years ago in this market. ----- It's all relative. John is out of work with no unemployment and my disability has been denied. (Merry Christmas!) So I know from depressing. It's just sad to see that my fears for the medium are being realized. ----- Medium: TV Medium: TV Medium: TV Medium: TV Medium: TV Medium: TV Medium: Radio Medium: Radio Medium: TV Medium: Print Market: Coast Position: Graphic Design Position: Editor Position: Publisher Market: Portland note: this is post-employment, it may have changed in the last 3 years or so but I highly doubt it knowing the folks who own the station. The fun part is when the station makes you sign a non-compete so you can't really "legally" freelance motion graphics work. -Dyn ========== Matt Davis, Mercury news reporter. Millions and millions of dollars an hour. Just made another million typing that. Not me, but as a manager here 'ya go. -Portland, PD of Top10 station....$75,000-100,000 Exceptions, of course, but this an average. Medium: Television Medium: Television Just a note, Rob Marciano was hired for $100,000/yr when he was first imported to KATU. Market: Portland Market: Portland behind the mic is tough, better to sell than be sold. told me exactly that, but I would have made a crappy acct exec, don't you think? ----- No way an editor and publisher have same base pay. Publishers make at least three times as much as editors, even before bonuses. You must not be a publisher of weekly paid newspaper with general distribution. Are you a self-publishing publisher? 50cents off the rack, $26 a year in county. Heck, we even print legals. 50cents off the rack, $26 a year in county. Heck, we even print legals.
Circ over 4,000. No I'm not a self-publishing publisher, part of a small chain (under 20 papers of similar size). This is what it's like for many rural newspapers. Are you in Oregon? I think the Pamplin chain treats its publishers better than your chain. Considering most people in the biz have at least a bachelors degree, that is pathetic pay. 20k in Bend? Do you qualify for food stamps? Portland market Portland 60k with TEN years experience. And putting together a TV show everyday on a deadline is tough work. Yeah, you get some benefits, but what about retirement? A 401k? Hey that BELO stock has been hot the last couple years. Perhaps its time to consider a rewarding career in law enforcement. you get to stand inside the yellow tape, by the time you have a couple years in you will be making 50-70k with OT, great benefits, great retirement system. Oh, you get to drive fast too. In towns like Lake Oswego the citizens wave at you with all their fingers. Been on both sides, go with the gun instead of the camera. Do you qualify for food stamps?
As a matter of fact...yeah...a kid at home and stay-at-home wife helps with that, though. Not to mention the fact that in Bend, the Director/TD is doing the job at least 4-5 people would be doing in Portland, KOIN excluded apparently ;-) Market: Portland My first reporting job out of college I wrote a column on what it was like living below the poverty line and qualifying for food stamps, WIC, etc. My first job out of college and the military paid $500/month. The only way to live on that was to work a lot of overtime. That was considered a perk. Medium: TV Medium: TV *Others with similar stats top $53,000 Some might say Jeff G... but the smart money is on Bob M. He started at a minimum of $150,000 at KPAM and is likely up to more than $200,000 by now. Lars would not have left TV for less than the $200 plus he was making from Tv and radio unless he could make more than that from the radion gig. With all the products he endorses, which he probably gets free as a result, he's probably pulling in more than $500K a year. Glad I got disenchanted with Journalism in College. That's all I'd wanted to do since I was nine years old. I'm so happy I ended up in the crappy, high paying, high tech industry. Would rather be writing, but I sure love eating more. Just have to worry about my job being there day to day. Guess it's getting the same in the journalism industry now too. Who'd have thunk? But I have it on good authority that Zaffino is the highest paid on-air TV person in Portland. Medium: Print (wire service) Medium: TV I am trying to get a job as an Assignment Editor in Portland...on average, how much are they paid in Portland? I grew up in PDX...please tell me it's more than I am currently paid! I have an 11th grade education, and I made $67,205.23 last year as an assistant manager at a local grocery store. So much for higher education!!! Safeway Rules!!! I am finally in a union job, and I'll tell you that it *rocks*. Pay increases scheduled out, insurance spelled out by contract, and a grievance process that can't be easily abused. I'll take that over some of the shenanigans of the non-union shops. ------------------------------------------- Medium: TV Post new comment |
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