Anonymous@7:32 p.m. writes:
32 years in journalism, all with Knight-Ridder and then Gannett. About 21 years as a reporter, 11 as editor on metro side. Mid-50's age group. Masters degree. Earn about $65,000 a year. So, am I typical?
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32 years in journalism, all with Knight-Ridder and then Gannett. About 21 years as a reporter, 11 as editor on metro side. Mid-50's age group. Masters degree. Earn about $65,000 a year. So, am I typical?
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By the time I left Gannett in January 2008, I was getting paid $105,000 a year as a USA Today reporter/editor.
ReplyDeleteThat was after 22 years -- all but two with Gannett -- working as a reporter and editor, mostly covering business news. I have a bachelor's degree in English.
jeez. guess I am underpaid, lol!
ReplyDeletePosting salaries is of little value without also posting the city or market where the job is. $65,000 in Binghamton or Greenville, S.C., is pretty good. In McLean, Va., $65,000 is worth a lot less. Ask anyone who has worked in both size markets.
ReplyDeleteJim was working out of the San Francisco bureau during high times for the economy. $105K would not be unusual for that market; in fact, compared to some of the engineers working there it's low.
$42,000, 26 years as a graphic artist. East coast. Female.
ReplyDelete30 years, bachelor's degree, copy editor/designer, $45,000, Southeast. I must be an idiot.
ReplyDelete$65,000. southeast market.
ReplyDelete$57,000 - reporter, 15 years. Southeast.
ReplyDeleteWhen they did the over $90K furloughs in Louisville, there were 36 people on the list. 29 were in the newsroom.
ReplyDelete$90k plus in louisvilleis like $140,000 in mclean. nice.
ReplyDelete$150k after 37 years in the business; female in mid-50s laid off this year. Only 10 years with Gannett, all but two years in the Midwest. Majority of years in news/edit setting, but have crossed a lot of departments. Very happy to be back in media after a brief search. Making half the money, but feel fortunate for what I have. It's been a great career; wouldn't trade it.
ReplyDeleteA bunch of those 90Ks in Louisville are gone.
ReplyDeleteI quit in Louisville a couple of years back making 62,000. Now, still in Louisville with another company in different industry making 100,000. Misplaced loyalty tax cost me around 40 grand a year till I wised up.
ReplyDelete35 years in IT, 15 years with Gannett. Southeast, 94k.
ReplyDeleteWhen I worked at Gannett IT in McLean I earned about 90K with 10yrs experience and a BS in progress. I left several years ago, work in the IT industry and make more than double that now.
ReplyDelete$37 million, 6 years as CEO, DC area. Did nothing, crushed the stock, fleeced the company.
ReplyDelete10 years in Cherry Hill making $70,000.
ReplyDelete$39,000 in Wisconsin as editor. 10 years experience.
ReplyDelete$40K. Female. Manager. 10 years experience, different departments. East coast. Trying to find my alternate industry so I can drop my misplaced loyalty tax like Anon 11/15/2011 2:25 AM did.
ReplyDeleteWhen the Binghams owned Louisville, they believed in paying a solid living wage and the bar was set high when Gannett bought the papers. A lot of the higher salaries still in the newsroom date to the Binghams. What Gannett has paid its hires is lower and several reporters/editors have second jobs these days.
ReplyDelete12:13 When I worked in Louisville, from 1996-1999, I was immediately struck by how many employees throughout the building appeared to be in their 50s and 60s. Some days, it seemed like 75%. (I was 40 when I arrived.)
ReplyDeleteThe Bingham family sold the paper and related properties to Gannett in 1986. I suspect many current employees were hired during the Bingham era, which would mean the paper overall has a very senior staff -- and the higher wages that come with seniority.
I imagine the situation is the same at newspapers including The Des Moines Register, which Gannett bought in 1985; and The Arizona Republic and The Indianapolis Star, both of which Gannett bought in 2000.
Fmr. APP reporter. Made $35k with 5 years exp. Left in 2010.
ReplyDeleteTopped at $50,000, Wisconsin reporter, before 12% paycuts to union in 2008, pension freeze, overtime cuts, loss of holiday pay, health insurance increases etc. 2010 W2 showed $13,000 less, and I'm damned glad I'm out.
ReplyDelete$89,500 Photography Az Republic 14 years. Started first with PNI ( Pulliam ) and then with Gannett.
ReplyDelete32k, reporter, 5yrs experience, midwest
ReplyDelete$38k as a reporter in mid-America. 4 years experience. Left for a new industry (not PR) and am now getting three times that. Best decision I ever made. More money. Less stress. No unpaid furloughs.
ReplyDelete$45K, reporter, 13 years at two different Gannett papers, currently in Midwest. I need to get out of here.
ReplyDelete$155k reporter with 2O plus years exp. Joined usa today within last 5.
ReplyDeletesoutheast, graphic designer, 18 years with newspapers, 28,000.
ReplyDeletenow you don't feel so bad.
$155,000 4 a USA Today reporter. Is that true?
ReplyDelete7:45 Entirely possible.
ReplyDeleteWhen I started at USAT in 2000, a senior editor told me (somewhat matter-of-factly) that more than a few reporters got paid above $100K annually. And that was nearly 12 years ago. With pay raises, I suspect the number getting paid above $100K has grown still more.
But keep this in mind: USAT reporters must work in some of the nation's most expensive cities to live: Washington metro; New York; San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc. You would struggle to find a two bedroom/one bath in those cities for under $500K.
I can afford a $400,000 condo on $65,000
ReplyDeleteManager level in Marketing, USA Today, $70,000
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ReplyDeleteYou should go over to the reporting side!
Once upon a time, I was looking for something in one of the public folders on the company server, and I found an Excel file that contained the salary of every single person at the publication. I think it had sat there for about four years before I stumbled across it. I don't know if anyone else saw it there, but I never showed it to anyone because it was just too awful.
ReplyDeleteStraight out of college (Bachelor's) I went to a Gannett paper in the South for $30,000. Five years later I left Gannett (making $31,000) and went to a Midwest paper where the cost of living was about 5 percent lower for $34,000.
ReplyDeleteSpent seven years as a reporter at two Ohio papers, left the company for two years, then came back for less than two as a copy editor/designer. I left in August making about $31.5K. I now make about 20 percent more than that as a writer at the nearby weekly chain.
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