Wages: The real deal

Management isn’t offering wage increases, but we thought you might want to know what people are making (average, highest and lowest pay in each category). Actual pay rates are different from wage scales, after all.

These are post-diversion wage rates. To get actual hourly compensation, add .9976 per hour to what we have here. (That 99 cents an hour is diverted from wages to pay the employee’s share of medical premiums.)

We’ve left out rates for one-person job titles so as not to individually identify any particular person’s pay rate. Small (two- or three-person) groups are reflected as averages only for the same reason.


Advertising

One-person titles: Advertising Special Projects Editor, TMC Outside Sales, Targeted Products Design Specialist, Advertising Design Intake Coordinator, Advertising Training Coordinator, TMC Preprint Coordinator, Classified Front Counter Associate,

Direct Marketing Sales Specialist average: 22.30; Outside Classified Sales average: 21.15 (high, 24.26; low,16.69); Outside National Sales average: 23.58 (high, 24.26; low, 19.76); Outside Retail Sales average: 21.78 (high, 24.26; low, 16.69); Advertising Copy Writer average: 22.03; Advertising Graphic Designer: 24.35 (high, 27.48; low, 22.40); Targeted Products Designer average: 21.63 (high, 23.75; low,18.73); Sales Associate average: 16.05 (high, 18.52; low, 15.21); Inside Sales average: 17.75 (high, 19.50; low, 15.43); Inside/Territory Sales average: 18.24 (high, 20.33; low, 15.43); Advertising Marketing Coordinator average: 21.22 (high, 22.82; low, 20.43); Advertising Preprint Coordinator average: 19.26; Direct Marketing Production Coordinator average: 21.68; Sales Support Assistant average: 15.02 (high, 15.63; low, 14.09); Senior Clerk average: 16.69 (high, 17.48; low, 15.09); Clerk average: 13.06; Customer Service Sales Classified average: 14.60 (high, 15.63; low, 12.83); Commission Sales average: 0 (no hourly wage; they’re paid commission only)


Circulation

One-person titles: Circulation Marketing Copy Writer, Circulation Marketing Production Coordinator, Project Support Coordinator, Statistician, NIE Specialist,

District Adviser average: 24.75 (high, 26.54; low, 23.34); Field Assistant average: 12.06 (high, 12.45; low, 10.95); Circulation Marketing Graphic Designer average: 22.94 (high, 24.76; low, 20.80); Assistant District Adviser: 16.99 (high, 19.54; low, 14.67); Circulation New Business Account Executive average: 20.65 (high, 21.05; 19.45); Sales Development & Promotion Coordinator average: 19.89; Alternate Product Administrator average: 16.31; Customer Service Specialist average: 16.44 (high, 18.03; low, 14.01); Senior Clerk average: 17.68 (high, 20.25; low, 15.04); Zone Clerk average: 16.72 (high, 18.62; low, 15.63); Clerk average: 14.83 (high, 16.20; low, 13.54); Collections Representative average: 13.31 (high, 14.62; low, 12.53)


Corporate Marketing

One-person titles: Copy Writer, Marketing Production Coordinator, Traffic Coordinator

Graphic Designer average: 24.18; Marketing Presentation Writer average: 21.15 (high, 23.75; low, 17.28); Research Analyst average: 22.58


Editorial

One-person title: Editorial Cartoonist

Desk Editor average: 29.06; Editorial Writer average: 34.73 (high, 35.97; low, 33.76)


News

One-person titles: Book Editor, Pacific Northwest Art Director, Pacific Northwest Associate Editor, Newsroom Aide, News Marketing Coordinator, Computer-Assisted Reporting Specialist, Home Economist, Listing Coordinator, Resale & Permissions Specialist II, Receptionist

Assistant Art Director average: 32.02 (high, 35.14; low, 26.22); Columnist average: 41.74 (high, 48.83; low, 35.10); Desk Editor average: 30.16 (high, 34.83; low, 21.02); News Page Designer average: 28.23 (high, 37.56; low, 23.86); News Resident average: 17.33 (high, 17.74; low, 16.52); Resale & Permissions Specialist I average: 19.67; Digital Production Assistant average: 18.79 (high, 22.84; low, 15.27); News Assistant average: 14.40 (high, 18.74; low, 13.38); News Artist average: 27.94 (high, 34.27; low, 23.26); Photographer average: 31.19 (high, 37.19; low, 23.26); Reporter average: 30.82 (high, 44.51; low, 22.40); Zone Reporter average: 24.09 (high, 25.94; low, 23.26); Lead News Assistant average: 18.31 (high, 22.42; low, 15.50); Senior Clerk average: 18.89 (high, 21.03; low, 16.36); News Researcher average: 23.67


Operations

One-person titles: Ad Services Lead, Statistician
Page Layout Specialist average: 23.34 (high, 26.70; low, 21.05); Clerk average: 15.06 (high, 15.63; low, 14.94)