I earned $105,000 as an editor by the time I took a USA Today buyout in January; that was after 20 years with the company. Now, as Gannett cuts thousands of jobs, I’m wondering how much you get paid.
Please post your information in the comments section, below, using the following format (I’ve used myself as an example):
- Years worked for Gannett: 20
- Which operation: newspaper
- Your job title: editor
- Annual pay: $105,000
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Gannett Blog 
September 16, 2008 at 5:33 AM |
8 years
Newspaper
Composing Mgr
$69,000/yr
September 16, 2008 at 5:45 AM |
In my opinion, you all get paid too much considering that news is free on the internet and you have not adapted to the changes in media consumption.
You are all dinosaurs and you are the single cause why Gannett is doing so poorly!
PS – Jim, it seems like this blog is repeating the same old stories, surveys, etc. I think it is getting a bit boring and you risk losing some of your audience with “the same old”.
September 16, 2008 at 6:07 AM |
Prior to leaving Gannett:
7 years
Newspaper
Reporter
$38,000/year
September 16, 2008 at 6:40 AM |
I haven’t noticed a single repitition on this blog. Just don’t see what you are talking about 6:45 AM.
Now, I have noticed consistency and uniformity in the way Jim presents information. Gannett, for the sake of its readers, could learn something about visuals and simplicity from reading this blog. I think Gannett’s hodgepodge approach in online presentation will drive readers away.
September 16, 2008 at 7:23 AM |
Prior to involuntarily leaving Gannett 1 year ago:
5 years
Newspaper
Reporter
$63,500
September 16, 2008 at 7:36 AM |
At Newsquest in the UK reporters can expect to earn less than £12,000 (c. $24,000) when they start as trainees on one of the smaller weekly papers, and with the cost of living being what it is here (retail inflation at 4.4% and rising) that is tantamount to slave labour/labor.
You can expect to go up to about £14,000 to £16,000 as a “senior” reporter.
September 16, 2008 at 7:39 AM |
Years worked: 30 +
Division: Newspaper (above 100,000 circ)
Title: Editor/Manager
Salary: $75,000
September 16, 2008 at 7:42 AM |
21 years
newspaper
metro editor
$64,000
6:45, the Internet wouldn’t have any news to steal and run for free if it weren’t for the people producing it for print.
Has anyone thought about what the bloggers and other online media will do when traditional media goes under? Does 6:45 envision one efficient Isvestia sending one efficient view of what’s “news” to this wonderful new Internet media?
September 16, 2008 at 8:00 AM |
Years worked: 5
Operation: Newspaper
Title: Reporter
Annual pay: $35,400
September 16, 2008 at 8:04 AM |
Years worked: less than one
Operation: Newspaper
Title: Reporter
Annual pay: $30,000
September 16, 2008 at 8:04 AM |
Journeyman press operator in Louisville,KY makes $23.23 an hour, 37.5 hour week, with some overtime. 3% raise due Jan “09.
September 16, 2008 at 8:05 AM |
Years worked: 14
Operation: Newspaper
Title: Editor/manager
Salary: $69,000
September 16, 2008 at 8:48 AM |
Years worked: 9.5
Division: USAT
Title: reporter
Salary: $43,800
September 16, 2008 at 8:49 AM |
Years worked: 19
Years worked for Gannett: 10
Operation: Newspaper
Title: sports copy editor
Salary: $65,000
September 16, 2008 at 9:02 AM |
Years worked: 1.5
Division: Newspaper (Smaller circulation)
Title: Copy editor
Salary: $30,000
September 16, 2008 at 9:22 AM |
Years @ Gannett: 7
Large circ newspaper (not USA Today)
Reporter
$80,000
September 16, 2008 at 9:29 AM |
Years worked: 19
Years at Gannett: 11
Job: Editor/manager
Salary: $51,000
September 16, 2008 at 9:30 AM |
Years worked: 10
Operation: Newspaper, 200k+ circ
Reporter
$55,000
September 16, 2008 at 9:35 AM |
Graphic Designer:
Started 30K and six years later 36K.
September 16, 2008 at 9:44 AM |
Wow. I mean, I know this is supposed to be informative (it is), but geez! It’s frustrating to see what people make — at both ends of the spectrum.
September 16, 2008 at 9:49 AM |
Amen 10:44. Amen.
September 16, 2008 at 9:52 AM |
prepress manager
15+ years
mid size daily
60k
September 16, 2008 at 10:22 AM |
I.T. Director
Newspaper / 100,000+ circ
8 years at current site / 10.5 years total
$94,000 / year
+ 35 shares of stock (merit)
+ $12,500 MBO bonus
My predecessor at this site was making $99,000 annually.
September 16, 2008 at 11:06 AM |
$26K + and still at work adding value to my product, Jim. Had the TUNA on my prostate and a colonoscopy during the past two years. I can pee over a Chevy and crap over a 10-rail fence and all the bills are paid. Just guessing, Jim, but don’t you think a lot of our problems today on and off Wall Street have something to do with journalists waiting for the telephone to ring and prosecutors in the sack with $5,000 hookers?
September 16, 2008 at 11:23 AM |
circulation manager
Newspaper/68,000 circulation
4 yrs
$40,000.
September 16, 2008 at 11:29 AM |
Years at Gannett: 15
Community Newspaper Division
Assistant Controller
$60,000
September 16, 2008 at 11:35 AM |
At Gannett: 15 years
Newspaper
Systems Technician 2
$53,000
September 16, 2008 at 11:43 AM |
At Gannett: 12 years
Newspaper
Librarian
$40,000
September 16, 2008 at 11:46 AM |
Seeing what some people are making just depresses me. I knew I was getting paid peanuts, but damn.
Years: 8
Newspaper (50K circ)
reporter
Annual Pay: $27,000
September 16, 2008 at 12:08 PM |
Lifetime @ Gannett: just shy of 30 years
Newspaper
Adm. Asst.
$38,300
One of the original dinosaurs that recently left. Yes, I remember when we used to get 7.5% raises. Where I worked (small paper) the pay structure was always out of whack. Reporters who did nothing got paid more than editors who supervised a staff and oversaw a section.
Comments on reviews and raises: yes, raises where done a year in advance during budgets. the editor had to “predict” (for lack of a better work), how well an employee would do in the coming year based on past performance. when it came time for your review, then they would look at the pay scale for your grade (this was always a big secret to employees). if your annual review fell in the first quarter, forget about it. you always got screwed.
September 16, 2008 at 12:21 PM |
A reader sent the following to me in an e-mail; I’ve edited a portion to shield their identity:
7 years
Newspaper
Ad Director
$80,000
September 16, 2008 at 12:35 PM |
photographer
15 years in Gannett
$48,000
September 16, 2008 at 12:47 PM |
Wow. I’m not a Gannettoid. I was, briefly. I now work for another major corporation that treats its employees like dogs, because I just don’t learn, I guess.
Just for comparison:
Years worked for my company: 2
Which operation: newspapers
Your job title: reporter
Annual pay: $20,000. Yes, I said twenty-thousand, and yes, I am full-time.
I’m an idiot.
If nothing else, even rookie Gannettoids get paid more. I will never make $30,000 with my current company.
September 16, 2008 at 1:01 PM |
Years 5 (ish)
Newspapers (large circ)
Warehouse Mgr
$25k
September 16, 2008 at 1:17 PM |
This is the one that actually made me do a double-take:
Years @ Gannett: 7
Large circ newspaper (not USA Today)
Reporter
$80,000
Really??
September 16, 2008 at 1:19 PM |
Of course you can divide by 60k per year by 70 hours per week, then it isnt so impressive.
September 16, 2008 at 1:30 PM |
VP/Advertising
20 years
$280,000 all in (bonus, clubs, stock)
September 16, 2008 at 1:36 PM |
2:17 p.m. – Yeah, I was wondering if that was a typo. I did 7 years at a 100,000+ circ and was making $38,000 when I left.
And by the way, I left because of my shitty salary.
September 16, 2008 at 1:39 PM |
At Gannett, it doesn’t pay to stick around at one site. Your annual raises will be somewhere between 1 percent and 3.5 percent, unless you’re promoted to editor, manager, etc.
For a big payoff, you need to work the system. A jump from one paper to another can boost your salary by 25 percent or more — at least it used to before the big crunch arrived.
September 16, 2008 at 1:43 PM |
AzRepublic/Shooter
Pulliam 6 years
Gannett 8 years
$86,200
September 16, 2008 at 2:12 PM |
Years: 10
Newspaper (Mid-Size)
IT Manager
$77,000
$1500 MBO Bonus
September 16, 2008 at 2:22 PM |
Years: 3.5
Newspaper (D.C.)
Reporter
$51,000
September 16, 2008 at 2:38 PM |
7 years
newspaper
copy editor
$43,000
September 16, 2008 at 2:47 PM |
My girlfriend works at Gannett, but I don’t (thankfully).
I have to question whether any of this is relevant, because:
a) The responses are self selected, so the results are likely to be skewed. While this is certainly not the case for everyone who has posted here, it’s easy to see how this site might draw more disgruntled workers than average, and how disgruntled workers might make less than average.
b) I think the only conclusions you can draw is that workers at big-time papers in bigger cities make more than those at papers in the sticks. Also, long-tenured employees make more than flakes, and managers make more than underlings. No surprises there.
September 16, 2008 at 2:49 PM |
how do MBO bonuses work, and how frequently are they used? Only with big projects, or for normal but high-expectation objectives?
September 16, 2008 at 3:11 PM |
5 years
Mid-Size Daily
Digital Pre-press
$24,000
😦 I’m getting screwed.
September 16, 2008 at 3:13 PM |
3:47, you made a leap there. With a few exceptions, folks didn’t post the size of their papers. I think it’s interesting seeing the wide range of responses. We know it’s a small percentage and we aren’t sitting here averaging this across 43,000 people.
I was among those who posted my salary. I am disgruntled, but not about what I’m paid. I’m disgruntled at being treated like something someone scrapes off the bottom of their shoes. And all the money in the world wouldn’t change that.
September 16, 2008 at 3:14 PM |
2
newspaper
online designer
$36k
September 16, 2008 at 3:18 PM |
2 yrs (6 yrs apart, 1 yr each)
Circulation
1st yr $40k DSM Out west
2nd yr $45k HD Manager
1st was a 450k
2nd was 35k
Juuuuuusst left before the original layoffs, late Junish.
September 16, 2008 at 3:26 PM |
Agreed, 4:13. I posted mine, too, and while I sure would have liked to have made more (who wouldn’t, obviously), my compensation didn’t make me mad. Corporate’s endless, mindless directives did.
September 16, 2008 at 3:44 PM |
Some executive assistants who rose the ranks with barely any experience at GCI are making $60,000+. And they’re getting annual bonuses.
September 16, 2008 at 3:45 PM |
Anon 2:17,
See Anon 2:39. If you stay at one paper, you’re condemned to a life of 2 1/2 percent raises. I worked at seven papers, including a long stretch in the big time at a KRI paper. Gannett recruited me and paid the right $$ to make it worth my while. Only later did I learn that money isn’t everything.
September 16, 2008 at 3:49 PM |
22 years
Advertising Director
65,000 circ.
$125,000 + bonus
September 16, 2008 at 3:50 PM |
I would have to agree that it isnt the money. Who would’nt like to make more. It is the direction that the leadership has taken things.
I say we should clean house at the top and bring back respectable and fair profit sharing, then you might see a change in attitudes.
September 16, 2008 at 4:11 PM |
The truth is we all want to think Gannett is one company but its just a Media Holding Company that owns a bunch of businesses….small newspapers, large newspapers, TV stations, digital companies, and USA Today. These are all separate businesses with separate divisional oversight and separate P&L. My point? You are paid based on the budget of your individual site….not one big Gannett strategy. Sorry Jim…Gannett might have one stock price the way Disney has a stock price and Time Warner and Viacom but these media companies are far more complex than that.
September 16, 2008 at 4:15 PM |
I worked at five Gannett newspapers, each one higher circulation, to get this far and take a buyout.
Years worked for Gannett: 25
Which operation: newspaper
Your job title: former editor, turned columnist and moved to reporter.
Annual pay: $70,000
September 16, 2008 at 4:20 PM |
5:11 PM
I hear you, but just when I start thinking that way, something really confusing happens. For example, a 9/3 SEC filing lists Cape Publications, Inc. and Gannett Digital in the CareerBuilder deal, but Gannett’s press release words it like total Gannett (one big company instead of two subsidiaries) incresed the CareerBuilder shares. Would someone please explain this to me?
September 16, 2008 at 4:24 PM |
5:11 PM is absolutely right – I work at one of the “Other” Gannett Locations, and my job is entirely online. I’ve been working for two years and I’m afraid of posting my salary because it’s almost shaming to those who have put in many more years than I have.
It’s not just Gannett, it’s the whole industry.
September 16, 2008 at 4:39 PM |
1 year Gannett
Large Circ Paper
Pre-Press
$40K for (37.5 hr work week)
Our company just had massive buyouts, if we just invested in some new computers and software I think we could afford to cut down another 25%.
Way too many dino’s in here.
September 16, 2008 at 4:44 PM |
11
Newspaper
News Clerk, page designer, editor
Started at $12,480. currently at $38,200
September 16, 2008 at 5:18 PM |
Years worked: 11 (I left in 2001)
Operation: Newspaper
Title: Copy editor
Annual pay: $48,000
September 16, 2008 at 5:54 PM |
Years at Gannett: 5
Operation: Newspaper
Title: Admin. Asst.
Annual Pay: $35,000
September 16, 2008 at 6:41 PM |
5 years
Newspaper
Shooter
$27K full-time.
September 16, 2008 at 6:46 PM |
Not only is the size of the paper important, so is the location. Different areas of the country have higher/lower costs of living and pay will (should) be proportionately so.
September 16, 2008 at 7:05 PM |
Years worked for Gannett: 3
Metro newspaper
Job title: Director of Employee Relations
Annual pay: $78,000
September 16, 2008 at 7:10 PM |
14 Years
Newspaper
Marketing Dir
$97,000 + Performance Bonus of up to
$35,000
September 16, 2008 at 7:13 PM |
Prior to leaving Gannett in July:
$41,000
5 years
Multimedia Producer
Newspaper
September 16, 2008 at 7:37 PM |
At this mid size newspaper, 37 years
Years owned by Gannett = 25
Senior Technician
$65K annually
September 16, 2008 at 8:34 PM |
copy editor metro paper
42 years
years owned by gannett 8
64k
September 16, 2008 at 8:37 PM |
Years worked for Gannett: 5
Which operation: newspaper
Your job title: reporter
Annual pay: $37,000
September 16, 2008 at 8:53 PM |
Years at Gannett: 9
Which operation: Publishing
Your job title: District Sales Manager
Annual Pay: $22,900
September 16, 2008 at 10:17 PM |
Your job title: CEO
Annual Pay: $8 Million and worth every penny.
Ahhhh, life is good!
September 16, 2008 at 10:19 PM |
years: 2
midsize newspaper
reporter
$42,000
September 16, 2008 at 10:44 PM |
Years 9
larger newspaper
sports reporter
60K
September 16, 2008 at 11:32 PM |
Wow. I guess I’ve done better than I thought I had — thanks to job-jumping over the years.
Years worked for Gannett: 20
Which operation: metro newspaper
Your job title: reporter
Annual pay: $76,000
September 17, 2008 at 12:43 AM |
5 years (2 in graphics 3 in IT)
Medium newspaper
IT all around (means always on call)
32K
just for comparison
our Network Admin
10 years
60K
our Programmer
14 years
54K
September 17, 2008 at 1:13 AM |
Years worked for Gannett: 8
Medium newspaper
Reporter/Editor
60k
September 17, 2008 at 1:57 AM |
Another thing besides circulation size and location that might make a big difference is whether the paper was a purchased paper and when it was purchased.
For example, if a copy editor made $50,000 under the previous owners, then Gannett would have to keep paying that and basing raises on that salary. At least, until the person left or was fired/bought out/etc.
The longer it’s been since the paper was bought, and the more turnover there’s been, the more likely it is that salaries have been Gannettized to be lower. Or at least that’s the way it seems to me.
September 17, 2008 at 2:44 AM |
Not enough.
September 17, 2008 at 7:11 AM |
Years worked: 6
Operation: Newspaper
Title: Reporter
Annual starting pay: $28,000
Current pay: $51,250
My job, apparently, is safe in these troubled times. I hate to say this, but I actually like my job and my boss is a decent person. I guess I belong on a different blog site.
September 17, 2008 at 8:53 AM |
8:11: No, no, no! We need people here with a positive outlook, too. Please keep coming back.
September 17, 2008 at 9:09 AM |
In 2000, a metro Gannett paper offered me $60,000 a year to be an assitant city editor — which is also about what other large papers were paying at the time. (I didn’t take it, but pay wasn’t the issue.)
That equates to about $71,000 in 2007 dollars.
September 17, 2008 at 9:20 AM |
Years worked: 20
Operation: largest daily in GCI
Title: Director of Real Estate
Annual pay: $180,000 salary + $40,000 bonus
September 17, 2008 at 10:31 AM |
8:11 a.m. — Having a positive outlook is great. I’m wondering, though, why you feel your job is safe in these troubled times. $50k a year is more than a lot of reporters with similar longevity are reporting here, and Gannett seems to make most decisions based on money not productivity. Aren’t you worried that you could be cut to carry 1 1/2 new reporters with significantly lower salaries? Do you know something I don’t? Just curious. I’m not trying to be facetious.
September 17, 2008 at 10:33 AM |
Years worked: 7
Operation: Corporate IT
Title: Senior Analyst
Annual Pay: $87,000
Recently left the company before the possibility arose of being laid off…
September 17, 2008 at 11:31 AM |
Years Worked: 3
Operation: Broadcasting
Title: News Producer
Annual Pay: $42,000
September 17, 2008 at 11:34 AM |
Another non-Gannett comparison.
Top 10 Media Company – publicly traded.
Top 50 Metro market
200K circ
Years worked 2
Operation: New Product Development
Title: Director
Annual Pay: $115,000
September 17, 2008 at 11:37 AM |
Years Worked: 16
Operation: Ad Services
Title: Mailroom Clerk, Proofreader,Any Assorted Jobs as Assigned. “Employee of the Month”
Annual Pay: $24,000
September 17, 2008 at 12:10 PM |
A reader sent the following in an e-mail:
Years: 10 at Gannett, 20 in industry before leaving voluntarily last year
Division: Metro newspaper (not USA Today)
Title: Reporter
Salary: $79,000
September 17, 2008 at 1:45 PM |
Years for Gannett: 5
Title: Producer, web
Salary: $42,000
September 17, 2008 at 1:54 PM |
years with gci – 15
position – salaried metro writer
pay – $69.000 plus lump sum cola
expense vouchers – priceless
September 17, 2008 at 5:02 PM |
years:7
Corporate Mail Clerk
35000/yr
left in 2001 after being accused of stealing McCorkingdale’s daughter’s christmas present
September 17, 2008 at 5:10 PM |
Years: 3
Title: Online Director
Salary: $105,000
Bonus: $10k out of $20k potential
Perks: Free Internet Service
September 17, 2008 at 5:11 PM |
A reader sent the following in an e-mail:
Years at Gannett: 17
Operation: 100,000-plus daily newspaper
Job Title: Feature Writer
Salary: $37,000 when I left 11 years ago to go into PR.
September 17, 2008 at 7:56 PM |
OMG, 6:02! That’s awful!! And yet so crazy that it made me laugh out loud. I’m sure you’re glad you’re gone.
I gotta say, I’m surprised that so many reporters are making so much … especially when you see other reporters making so little. Are the highest paid reporters the “stars” who have great sources and dig the hardest to find meaningful stories? Or is that just what reporters at large-circ papers get paid?
September 17, 2008 at 9:13 PM |
Worked: 3
Small circ. newspaper
Title: special sections editor
Pay: $45,000
September 17, 2008 at 10:09 PM |
What is truly amazing is the salary of the advertising directors. The bigger secret is how much the average advertising rep on the street makes working for a newspaper – FAR more than any editor or reporter! At Gannett, it is ALL about the money.
September 17, 2008 at 10:11 PM |
The salary of newsroom folks at the smaller gannet papers, especially those “little” papers they bought in 2001, is abysmal. Yes, reporters at $20,000, and editors at MAYBE $30,000. Pathetic.
September 17, 2008 at 10:29 PM |
9 years
Newspaper
An assistant editor
$48,000 (started out at $30,000)
September 17, 2008 at 11:51 PM |
2 years
mid size newspaper
photographer
$32,000
September 18, 2008 at 12:50 AM |
The info asked for doesn’t give an adequate picture to be useful. Seems essential also to ask for years of experience prior to tenure in Gannett position.
As a practical example: I took a gig w/a medium-sized Gannett IC for a so-so salary after working for a few years in a way bigger market for a top media provider making WAY more $$$.
So will my current salary seem over-the-top to some? Or totally insulting? Or just about right given my skills, goals, outlook and circumstances?
As usual with quantification, the devil is in the details.
September 18, 2008 at 2:26 AM |
Years in the business: 10
Years with Gannett: 6
Operation: news, major metro
Title: reporter
Annual salary: About $50,000
My first reporting job at a small circulation daily paid $7/ hour. Learned a lot. Still a crime.
Three years later, I was offered a job at a Gannett paper. It was a mid-sized metro and I saw a 44 percent salary increase.
Moving to a major metro brought another 15 percent increase.
News won’t make a reporter rich, but the finances work for me – and it’s damned fun. (Apart from the layoffs bit.)
September 18, 2008 at 3:32 AM |
Less than a year (straight out of college)
Major metro daily (came from an internship)
Online producer/editor
$32,000
September 18, 2008 at 7:33 AM |
Too many years
Director at mid-size property
$150,000 plus bonus, stock, country club membership, and a company car when the publisher isn’t using it. tft!
September 18, 2008 at 7:43 AM |
“What is truly amazing is the salary of the advertising directors. The bigger secret is how much the average advertising rep on the street makes working for a newspaper – FAR more than any editor or reporter! At Gannett, it is ALL about the money.”
As it is in television, radio, magazines, etc. News does not pay the bills, advertising does. I once a quote on a reporters desk, “a newspaper without news is just paper”. I always thought to myself, how can somebody be so out of touch with the business? A newspaper without advertising is out of business. A newspaper without news is a shopper, and still in business.
I hope you realize what butters the bread before you complain about sales salaries. Of course, you could give up your comfy salary and live off of commission like many sales people do.
September 18, 2008 at 7:58 AM |
Amen, 8:43! I always told people that news filled the space that advertising left behind.
September 18, 2008 at 8:47 AM |
And I once worked for a publisher (not at Gannett) who said that copy editors were just there to make the stories fit around the ads. He didn’t care about the skill or talent it takes a good copy editor to push through a solid story. All he cared about were the ads and the money. (BTW, that paper doesn’t exist anymore.)
There’s a fine line there, and it’s imperative that it doesn’t get blurred. Let’s just say that both parts are equally needed: You need great salespeople busting their humps to pull in ads, and you need great newspeople to produce a quality product so that advertisers and readers keep coming back. Any newspaper that doesn’t have both is in trouble. And both departments need adequate resources in order to do their best.
September 18, 2008 at 8:57 AM |
Bottom line is a sales person can’t make too much if they are bringing in more than they’re keeping. If you’re living off commission and pulling in a huge salary, kudos.
I’m a reporter by the way.
September 18, 2008 at 9:02 AM |
These numbers are worthless if people don’t post their locale.
September 18, 2008 at 10:50 AM |
10:02: You are correct that location would be useful. Readers are certainly free to include that, plus circulation/viewership, etc., if they choose.
I didn’t call for that level of detail in my original post, however, because I was afraid it would depress responses from people who feared their boss would be able to identify them.
September 18, 2008 at 11:53 AM |
Years worked for Gannett: Juuust about a decade
Which operation: NJ newspaper
Your job title: ADS
Starting Salary: $25,350
Current pay: $31,000
All those 3% raises have really worked wonders. I think by NJ standards I can collect food stamps.
September 18, 2008 at 12:38 PM |
Years in newspapers/television: almost 10
Years at Gannett: 9 months
Title: higher ed reporter
Current Pay: $29,000
Locale: south/midsize daily metro
By the way, I’m curious about mileage reimbursement rates at other places. Ours is dismal and gas is killing me.
September 19, 2008 at 6:22 AM |
Years at Gannett: 10 years
Title: Market Development Director, (left 2007)
Pay: $102,000, + 15% MBO
Location: Mid-size market in Southeast
September 19, 2008 at 1:56 PM |
I’m’ quite ashamed to say:
Years at Gannett: almost 15 years
Title: Entertainment editor/features writer/paginator (all at once) (left 2005)
Pay: $34,000 at the end (and lots of unpaid overtime)
September 21, 2008 at 9:22 PM |
I think I just threw up in my mouth reading this! LOL I got screwed, for sure!!
September 22, 2008 at 7:58 PM |
Amen to 9:47 PM and 9:57 PM!
* Years worked for Gannett: 2
* Which operation: large daily metro newspaper
* Your job title: sales rep (retail territories)
* Annual pay: $85,000
September 22, 2008 at 8:59 PM |
– Worked for Gannett: 5 months
– Operation: newspaper
– Title: Web Architect
– Salary: $38,000 and some change
I need a raise…
September 23, 2008 at 10:06 PM |
* Years worked for Gannett: almost 2, straight from college
* Which operation: newspaper, 40K
* Your job title: reporter
* Annual pay: $27,000ish
FWIW: I know two other recent grads who took jobs at midwest Gannett papers within the last year for the same starting salary: $26,500.
I calculated and assuming a 3% annual raise, it would still take me to my sixth year to break $30K and to my fifteenth to break $40K. Think I’ve decided it’s time to hop to another paper, if only for a pay raise. I knew they got me cheap and since I’m young, I took it. But damn. This is depressing.
September 24, 2008 at 10:19 AM |
“9/23/2008 11:06 PM: I’ve decided it’s time to hop to another paper”
Uh, you’re young and recently out of college. Might want to consider ‘hopping’ out of newspaper and into another media. It is very unlikely that newspapers will make it to your ‘fifteenth’.
September 28, 2008 at 4:37 PM |
A reader sent this in an e-mail:
Years worked for Gannett: 4.5
Which operation: newspaper/web
Your job title: reporter
Annual pay: $56,800
October 16, 2008 at 2:33 PM |
Newspaper reporter
I used to work for a mid sized Gannett daily around 15 yrs ago. I was making around 30 K there, which was about 10 K higher than the small daily i left.
I left there to go to a large daily and received another salary jump up to 40K. I left the large daily and the industry after three more years at 50K.
Sad to see so many salaries are the same as 15 years ago.