Daily Newspapers

• An annual survey conducted by the University of Georgia found that the median annual salary for journalists who held bachelor's degrees and were employed on a full-time basis at daily newspapers was $27,500, as of 2010. Although this figure was slightly higher than in 2009 ($27,000), it represented a decline from 2007 and 2008, when the median salary for full-time journalists at daily newspapers was $28,000 and $29,100, respectively.
  
  

Weekly Newspapers and Magazines

• The median salary for full-time journalists with bachelor's degrees employed at weekly newspapers was $25,000 in 2010, the same as in 2009 and a decline from 2008, when the reported median salary was $26,000. Those who worked with consumer magazines earned more, with a reported median annual salary of $30,000.
  
  

Other Media

• According to the survey conducted by the University of Georgia, journalists working in radio earned a median annual salary of $27,000, which represented a two-year decline in wages from 2008, when the median salary of radio journalists was $30,500. The reported median salary for journalists working in television was $25,400, an all-time high. The median salary for journalists writing on the Internet was reported as $35,000.
  
  

Geographical Region

• According to the University of Georgia survey, the highest median salary by geographic region was reported in the northeastern United States and was $33,000. The west, which included Alaska and Hawaii, reported a median salary of $31,200. Journalists working in both the south (including Puerto Rico) and Midwest reported a median annual salary of $30,000.
  
  

Union Membership

• The University of Georgia reports that journalists who belonged to a union reported a median annual salary of $38,000 in 2010, fully $8,000 more than the $30,000 median salary reported by their non-unionized counterparts. Unfortunately, only 2.4 percent of full-time journalists reported union membership in 2010, representing the lowest percentage of all years covered in the study and a decline from the 3.3 percent reporting union membership in 2009.
  
  

Entertainment Journalists by Industry Sector

• Earnings for entertainment journalists tend to vary by employment sector. According to Clay Evans of the Boulder Daily Camera, entertainment journalists working at daily newspapers tend to be paid less than their counterparts who report on traditional news stories. However, entertainment journalists working for leading national magazines are capable of earning considerably more, as are those who find employment with nationally recognized websites specializing in entertainment news.