The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1895-01-03
THURSDAY. JANUARY 8, 1895
THE PAY OF JOURNALISTS.

SIN New York City the salaries are
higher than anywhere else, parity be-
cause the cost of living is greater there
than in any other large city. One
editor-in n-chief has the same salary
as the president of the United
States, $4,000 per year, and others
receive from $4,000 to $4,000, or
more than members of the cabinet.
Managing editors are paid from 800 to
$50 per week, or a better compensa-
ton than that of senators ond represent
atives in congress. Editorial writer's
get from $50 to $75 per week as a rule,
and in cases of rare ability as much as
the average salary of a managing
editor. City editors receive from $50 to
to $75 per week, and in a few instances
500. The pay of news editors is about
equal to that of city editors. Literary,
theatrical and musical critics average
$50 per week. Copy-readers are paid
from $40 to $45 per week. Reporters
earn all the way from SIS to $50 per
week, with an average of $40, and space
writers of particular talent have been
known to make as much as 1925 per
week, though the Limitation of topics
and the pressure of competition usually
keep their incomes down around those
of the best paid reporters. There are
some writer's for syndicates of news
papers, men with names that have a
certain value, who earn from s., 1000 to
to $4,000 per year, and there are others
of first-class technical capacity IN yari-
ous lines whose salaries occasionally
reach $4,000. The pay of all classes of
journalists averages 10 per cent lower in
Brooklyn than in New York City. -
Capt. Henry King, IN the January
Forum.
Captain Henry King may be correct
in his statement as to salaries, but he is
entirely unacqua1nted with his subject,
and most wofully mistaken in the rea-
sons he gives for the salaries in New
York being higher than elsewhere, at
least as far as the statement that the
STANDARD of proficiency is higher" is
concerned. It is a notorious fact that
the New York editorial stats do not be-
gin to compare with those of other
cities. Outside of Charles A. Dana
there is scarcely an editorial writer in
New York City whose reputation ex-
tends beyond the city limits, or at the
most those of the state. Philadelphia,
Cincinnati, Chicago, Louisville, San
Francisco, and even Portland can show
more talent than New York City.
Much as we may disagree with the
editor of the Oregonian, we recognize in
him an abler all-around editorial writer
than any New York can produce. Am
brose Bierce of San Francisco, who
made the Argonaut famous; Henry
Watterson of Louisville; Harry Nc
Even of San Francisco-all from minol
cities are yet all more versatile and
more incisive writers than those OF New
York City. Salaries may be higher ir
that city than elsewhere, but the reason
is in the ability of the papers, with
their large circulations to pay them
One thing will be noticed all through
Mr.. Kings article, and that is tha
newspaper work, editorial and other, i.
very poorly paid, that is the men who
do the writing. Managers get paid fol
business ability, but the fellows whc
push the lead pencils and furnish tht
reading matter are, considering every
thing, the worst paid class of intelligen
workers in the entire world.