ESPN The Mag: What a sports reporter makes ...

$75K is ridiculously high... I read somewhere that if you throw out the three biggest markets, 90 percent of print journalists will never break $50K in a year...

 

Are you talking sports or all print journalists? That's interesting.

 

By my calculations, at my current raise rate of 50 cents per hour, per year, I'll crack the $75,000 barrier sometime around 2130

 

yet another reason not to like ESPN.

 

I'm floating at about $30k right now as an almost-full-time guy. No way I'll ever see $75k/year unless I for someone unknown reason get promoted to lead columnist.

 

Utter crap. Who did they poll ... Rick Reilly?

I'd like to know their sources ... their talking heads that are pulling down many times more than we'll ever see?

 

Just like Washington inside-the-Beltway politicial journalists and pundits, whoever came up with the $75K figure is one of these elitists whose tongue is so far up the colon of power that he/she no longer has a #$%@ clue what it's like for the rest of us out here.

 

What's funnier is the "small-market TV commentator: $50,000."

Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought TV paid the least in comparison to print. And while I'm sure on-air talent gets more, I can't imagine small market talent (I'm guessing that means market nos. 100 and higher) getting that much coin.

 

All I know is that we are a small market, and we barely get paid enough to be able to live paycheck to paycheck in the print business. But from what I hear, the TV guys are paid abotu $200 a month less than we are, at least. But then they aren't required to have their own working vehicles.

 

ESPN the mag is the worst piece of sports journalism on the market. Horribly written by crapheads who flunked out of ebonics.

Like someone else said: Another reason to hate ESPN

 

After hearing about how you sports journalists get paid, I suggest you change your professions. Sounds like I get paid a lot more than you guys. Maybe you should come work at my water treatment plant.