Edit: I meant this for the gaming section and reported it immediately after I created it.
Patrick (currently at Vice/Waypoint) posted his recollection of his current and past salaries. Without knowing anything about those other companies, Giant Bomb stuck out to me.
Patrick lived in the San Fransisco area around 2011 and sometime later stayed at Giant Bomb while he moved back to the midwest. His LinkedIn (came up on Google, I wasn't stalking him) says he was Senior News Editor at Giant Bomb from April 2011 to December 2014.
As a Giant Bomb fan, this number seems criminally low. Giant Bomb paints itself as hip, close to its fans, etc., and $65K in the bay area is a slap in the face. I hope in the last 5 years something has changed, because I don't want to pay for premium anymore if the site can't give its staffers a living wage. NerdWallet's cost of living calculator reports 65K in SF is the same as $39.5K in Chicago or $29.5K in Columbus, OH. These are present-day numbers, they probably weren't quite as dire in 2011-2014.
Patrick (currently at Vice/Waypoint) posted his recollection of his current and past salaries. Without knowing anything about those other companies, Giant Bomb stuck out to me.
I've had a lot of media jobs, so my memory is fuzzy on the older salaries, but this is my best guess:
1UP: 45k
MTV: 50k ("Permalancer")
G4: 55k
EGM: 72k
Giant Bomb: 65k (no raise over 4 years, iirc)
Kotaku: 77k
Waypoint: 90k
Today: $100k, thanks to yearly union pay raises.
Patrick lived in the San Fransisco area around 2011 and sometime later stayed at Giant Bomb while he moved back to the midwest. His LinkedIn (came up on Google, I wasn't stalking him) says he was Senior News Editor at Giant Bomb from April 2011 to December 2014.
As a Giant Bomb fan, this number seems criminally low. Giant Bomb paints itself as hip, close to its fans, etc., and $65K in the bay area is a slap in the face. I hope in the last 5 years something has changed, because I don't want to pay for premium anymore if the site can't give its staffers a living wage. NerdWallet's cost of living calculator reports 65K in SF is the same as $39.5K in Chicago or $29.5K in Columbus, OH. These are present-day numbers, they probably weren't quite as dire in 2011-2014.
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