Hundreds of journalists are sharing their salary information in a spreadsheet / Boing Boing

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Hundreds of journalists are sharing their salary information in a spreadsheet

I’m in a private Slack with some other media/journalist people, and someone brought up the idea of pay transparency. After all: if you don’t know what your colleagues are being paid, it…

via Boing Boing: https://boingboing.net/2019/11/13/hundreds-of-journalists-are-sh.html

As of this writing, more than 200 people have responded. On one hand, it is admittedly difficult to verify the claims contained within the data. On the other hand, there’s still lots of eye-opening information to glean. Unsurprisingly, there are pay disparities across race and gender; but the same thing happens across geographic location, and work experience. Perhaps the most shocking revelation so far is just the absurd range of income of people working in news media. There are people making $33K in Iowa, who are jealous of those living off of $52K in New York City, plus some surprising outlets that pay remarkably well. And of course, there are a few wild outliers, like the podcast producer making $400K at Vox Media (I don’t know who that is, but I have my suspicions).