That's the base pay Gannett is now offering for a web producer/developer job handling all visual elements of Florida Today's website, according to the paper's CareerBuilder job posting; it's the subject of today's pop quiz. The job includes responsibility "for the overall look and feel of the website, including lead development of content and architecture plans, presentation design and coordination of all materials to prepare for production."How much did Florida Today pay the last person doing this work?
What's your paper pay?
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I thought people with these jobs (or any development IT job) at Gannett were ALL under paid no matter where they live.
ReplyDeleteEven in the big Metro areas.
Did I miss something like - time being put into a bottle? $30,000 a year? That's degrading and demeaning! HELLOOOOO the year is 2009, NOT 1969. The only thing I can say is: Good luck with that, unless it's for a part timer!
ReplyDeleteI make 5k less as a web producer. fml.
ReplyDeleteAfter 15 years with Gannett, I was making $20.21/hr. being a graphic/production artist.
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ReplyDeleteI was working at a Gannett Newspaper in 1969 -- that was the year I finally went over $100 a week -- and I was close to being highest paid in the newsroom
The overall look and feel of the website is self-aggrandizing. All the gannett web sites are the same - using the corporate controlled design and technology. Web designers and producers in this environment are primarily focused on content delivery not "design". 30K, however, is sstill underpaid - in this day and age and in that market. But, it's better than unemployment...
ReplyDelete11:59 AM wrote: "I thought people with these jobs (or any development IT job) at Gannett were ALL under paid no matter where they live."
ReplyDeleteI figured they were all OVERpaid.
I can assure you Gannett IT people are underpaid. I left the company a few years ago for a $15,000(about 25%) raise and less responsibility.
ReplyDeleteMy salary is now double what it was at Gannett.
$30,000 a year, at Florida Today? Um.... do you get fries with that?
ReplyDeleteIT is one of those industries where you really get the quality of people you pay for. Writing/editing, where supply far outstrips demand: Not so much.
ReplyDeleteso they pay 25% less than starting teacher (with master's, no experience) in that same county? for a very sull sked with no two-week break at xmas or summer off.
ReplyDeleteatrocious.
glas this company is bubbling under. took advantage of kids for years while making obscene profits. now - game over.
I made more at a small KR paper in 1990.
You pay peanuts - you get monkeys.
ReplyDeletefire dept. "lt." with high school diploma and 10 years experience in neighboring county gets $71,000, with early retirement and health benefits for life.
Uncle Al is mocking the journalists who built his empire.
Say goodnight, turn off the lites.
There are two pay worlds where I work...those with 20 plus years experience who make $50-80,000 and those who have been hired in the last three years...they are members of the 550 ($550 per week) Club. The disparity is amazing.
ReplyDeleteAt a Gannett-owned newspaper up in the Northeast, I make $45K full-time doing those similar responsibilities.
ReplyDeleteWhat used to be a career now looks more and more like burger flipping.
ReplyDeleteWho's going to read the sites run by morons who'll work for that kind of money?
WTF??
ReplyDeleteFlorida Today was a good solid paper back in the day - sent people on to Miami Herald, USAT, Houston Chron., etc.
now they have people making less than teacher pay??
creeps.
one wonders - who would apply for a $30k job with this high-demand skill set? the bottom of the barrel??
One more example that the value of a college degree is declining. Folks should still go to college for a lot more reasons than getting a job. But $30K for a college graduate?
ReplyDeleteAs newspapers push down salary levels they will also hire more people without four-year college degrees. I know of one newspaper already thinking of dropping its education requirement for reporters down to the associate's degre level. That way they'll be able to start cub reporters at, oh, $25K.
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ReplyDeleteAs newspapers push down salary levels they will also hire more people without four-year college degrees. I know of one newspaper already thinking of dropping its education requirement for reporters down to the associate's degre level. That way they'll be able to start cub reporters at, oh, $25K.... They already practically do pay that little. Two friends and I each started as reporters at separate Gannett papers in the Midwest within the past few years. Each had at least one internship and a four-year college degree in journalism. All of us were paid ~$26,500 the first year. When you count in the low raises and furloughs, I'll be down to $25K this year in no time.
Re: Jim's original post. My paper doesn't even have this job.
I think the janitors at corporate HQ make more than this!!!!!!!!
ReplyDelete5:17 PM -- Correct on the was. Not anymore. I'm tried of listening to friends who give me crap for how bad it has become.
ReplyDelete$15.95. 17 years at a gannett paper. started as a paste up artist, then production artist, a graphic artist in the advertising dept for 10 years. of course that was before furloughs.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of janitors: Florida Today needs some. That place is filthy!
ReplyDeleteI'm a developer at a NJ paper making $20/hr. I'm grossly underpaid.
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty typical of the pay for Web staffers at my paper; about 10 to 20 percent lower than print of comparable years experience.
ReplyDeleteFlorida Today can get away with this because Brevard County reporters and others in the journalism fields have very few options. There is a weekly community free press, but they pay even less, and almost all the "magazines" are controlled by Florida Today. Control all the employment options, you can name your price. Don't like the salary, they'll tell you to go to Orlando, Ocala, Gainesville, or Palm Beach. People in Brevard aren't going to like those options.
ReplyDeleteThis low pay for content production is prevalent even at USAT. I left there 5 years ago for a 48% payraise doing similar work with room for advancement and less bureaucratic hassle.
ReplyDeleteYou get what you pay for - you pay a little = you get little in return. Anyone with real talent could make twice that easy.
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