Occupation / job
Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
At $47,340 against $50,020, Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys sits $1.28 an hour under the typical American job. A gap that small is not a reason to choose it or to rule it out; the spread and the entry cost are where the real decision is.
With 21,240 employed as Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys, most metros have a working market: several employers, visible turnover, and the ability to change jobs without moving house.
Media and communication work suits people who can write or edit to a deadline that will not move, for an audience that owes them no attention.
No verified preparation time is on file for Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.
Who should not do this
At 2.1x, from $35,360 to $75,480, the two halves of Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys are not really doing the same job. $3,343 a month separates them, and something other than the title explains it.
A quarter of the field earns under $35,360 — $14,660 below the $50,020 the typical American job pays. That is the number to plan on for a first year, not the midpoint.
Avoid it if you need job security; this field restructures more often than almost any other here.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 21,240 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
At 2.1x the range from $35,360 to $75,480 is doing more explaining than the job title is. Something sorts people across that distance — sector, speciality, or who employs them — and finding out what it is matters more than the $47,340 midpoint.
In cash terms the middle half of Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys runs $35,360 to $75,480 — $40,120 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $47,340.
The 75th percentile is $75,480. Reaching it from the $47,340 midpoint is $28,140 a year; reaching it from the $35,360 that the bottom quarter of Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys earn is $40,120.
From $47,340 the drop to $35,360 is $11,980 and the climb to $75,480 is $28,140. When the upper half of the range is that much longer, the average is pulled well above the median — which is exactly why this site publishes the median.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $22.75 at the midpoint for Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys, $17.00 at the 25th percentile and $36.28 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $47,340 describes them.
The hourly number on this page is $47,340 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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