What do you make?

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

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.

 

[Rhody31]

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.

 

[JackReacher]

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

 

[Riptide]

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

 

[Ace]

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

For hookers and booze?

 

[JackReacher]

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

For hookers and booze?

Of course!

 

[Drip]

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

And you answered?

 

[Captain Obvious]

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.

The problem is getting those jobs.

 

[trifectarich]

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.

 

[Dick Whitman]

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

 

[Uncle.Ruckus]

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

 

[Mizzougrad96]

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.