Changes from 1987 to 1994.
Costs shift to staff.
Television stations, like many other firms, are shifting the costs of health insurance and other staff benefits more and more from the employer to the employee. This amounts to still another cut in buying power for TV journalists, whose salaries typically failed to keep up with the cost of living in 1994. So found national surveys conducted by the author in 1987 and again in 1994. The findings reported here represent only stations with news operations. The costliest item is typically health insurance.