journos/writers/artists/creatives etc, how much do you generally get paid after youve completed a piece of work

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anybody wanna list their page rates?

hello.

Back in 1987, or thereabouts, I did my one and only piece of journalism in the form of a "Jesus and Mary Chain" artice for Record Collector, for which I was paid £120

Thesedays, with the internet prompting more people to do "music writing", I can imagine the pay rates being much the same as them. But I don't know.

MG

Did a review and a short piece for The Wire a couple of years ago, 50 pounds for one 30 pounds for the other. Wrote a book review for the TLS, I think that was 50 pounds too. A feature for Frieze netted me 200 pounds.

Fortunately freelance cultural journalism is an occasional hobby, can't imagine how you'd make a living from it

You'd have to use the Kris Needs approach, most probably.

I've been paid for exactly one bit of writing and it was about £70.

I've written for anywhere from free (Pop Matters) to 10 cents a word (local weeklies, No Depression) to 50 cents a word (New York Times) to $1.50 a word (some corporate communications for an insurance company). For freelance copy editing, I've usually asked and gotten about $25 an hour.

Also did a thing for a national parks magazine last year, that was $1 a word. My sense overall is that rates at established publications have stayed about flat for the past decade, which means they've gone down in real terms. And newer, digital outlets pay at the low end (if at all). Reasons for this are fairly obvious, in terms of supply, demand and the shrinking profits in the industry as a whole.

Usually £90 - £250 for music writing, somewhere in the middle for education stuff.

I've just this moment finished a 1000-word piece for an art catalogue for which the fee is 600 euros (plus about 500 euros of expenses, because it involved travel to a somewhat exotic location). Before that, I earned 1000 euros for a 600-word piece for a shoe company's glossy magazine. A regular online music column nets a more modest 150 euros for 1500 words every month, but I can be indulgent and write about what interests me. European art mag, 150 euros for a 750-word feature every quarter.

I earn money other ways too -- and also write for free for publications I like -- but would find it fairly easy to make a modest living writing for mags if I had to. The weird thing is that I don't solicit this work at all; it comes to me at a fairly steady rate.

I've been paid everything from nothing (lots of places) to $20-40 (CD reviews tend to pay in this range no matter the site or mag) to $100 an hour as a freelance editor for a record label website.

I don't make enough money to tell people how much money I make. Don't really understand this thing where people WANT to talk about it, "age of transparency" gone mad.

being able to understand what realistic pay for a job is allows for the first steps toward being able to ask for it as well as the opportunity for people curious to break into a field to take an honest assessment of of their financial expectations
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worst was $30 per page doing e-commerce copy for an audio equipment company. definitely wasn't enough considering what i had to do ... photography/photo editing, research, writing, html, and CSS. ended up being about $15/hour. mistake of youth.

... though it was far better than mopping floors at the local mall like i had to do during college, so there's that.