What do you make?

Started in sports close to 15 years ago making $19,500 at a daily.
Left to be ASE (at another daily) for $25,500 about three years later. Left sports (still at same paper) about eight years ago and I make less $31,000 a year.

 

I was making 12.50 an hour and was the highest paid reporter at my paper until I was fired at the end of January.
I've been looking for jobs outside the biz and the pay they're offering is amazing in comparison. If I made 50 K a year, I wouldn't know what to do with all that money except buy hookers and booze.

 

Christ, Rhody. That is gross. Good luck in your search.

 

I started at $12K and wound up at $63K.
Then the Turk came knocking at the door.

 

For hookers and booze?

 

Of course!

 

And you answered?

 

The problem is getting those jobs.

 

My first job out of college (late '70s), I made $295 a week. I did such a fabulous job that I was given a raise after only three months there — an additional $5 a week.

 

I started at $20,800 ($10/hr.) in 1999, and left at about $38,000 in 2008.

 

Started at $24K in 2003, maxed out at $45K, now out of the business, thank God.

 

My newspaper salary went from $34K my first full year (1996) to $58K during my last year (2008). I also had a radio show my last three years where I made an additional $12K-$15K.

I make basically the same now as I did my last year in the business, but I work 40 hours a week, have never worked a weekend day or a holiday and when I leave for the day, I don't think about work for a second until the next work day starts.