Nosey question...

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Hi,

Just wondering how much money a weekly sport columnist gets for writing for the likes of the Indo or Herald? Not the celeb ones, like Giles or Cyril Farrell or Paul Curran - but say the guy who the rights the golf (one page) in the Herald or the guy writes the Motor sport page??

Just curious...

Wishbone Ash

Edit: Unhelpful post removed.

flogen

Wishbone - it's one thing to pull someone up when their spelling and grammatical skills make it hard to decipher their post but pulling someone up for one bad spelling is unnecessary (unless, perhaps, they make the error while insulting someone else's mistake).

The fact that the OP doesn't make any reference to wanting to become a journalist and you make no attempt to even recognise his query makes your post nothing but unnecessary.

OP - those kinds of figures aren't generally available and would naturally differ from newspaper to newspaper, person to person and topic to topic. The best you'd find in official terms would be the overall wages of a newspaper in the company's annual accounts but that wouldn't give you much of an idea.

So the bigger the paper or the more important the topic is to their readership, the better they're likely to pay for the "expert". The more respected a voice that expert is the higher a price they can demand for their services.

If it's any help to your curiosity the recruitment agency Prosperity says a print reporter earns (on average I guess) somewhere between €48,000 and €62,000. Not sure if that's indicative of what the columnists and experts get but it's the best I could find.

monument

It may not give you exactly what you want, but one of the best - most open - places to find rates of pay is at... http://www.londonfreelance.org/rates/

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monument wrote:

It may not give you exactly what you want, but one of the best - most open - places to find rates of pay is at... http://www.londonfreelance.org/rates/

Very helpful, thank you...

Wishbone Ash

flogen wrote:

The fact that the OP doesn't make any reference to wanting to become a journalist and you make no attempt to even recognise his query makes your post nothing but unnecessary

Point taken. Apologies to the OP.

(The pitfalls of posting while under the influence )