News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists

A $62,200 midpoint puts News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists $12,180 above the $50,020 typical American job — a 24% premium paid for the training, the licence or the conditions. It is not free money and it disappears the moment you stop meeting the requirement.

39,250 people do this work nationally. That is the size at which News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists becomes a career rather than a post — enough employers in a normal city that leaving one of them is a decision rather than a crisis.

This work suits people who can produce to length and to time, repeatedly, and who are not precious about being edited.

No verified preparation time is on file for News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists. 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.

A quarter earn under $45,370, a quarter over $98,450: $4,423 a month between them at a 2.2x ratio. Planning around the midpoint of a spread this wide is planning around a number very few people in News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists actually earn.

At $45,370, or $21.81 an hour, the bottom quarter of this work lands within $4,650 of the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — an unusually solid floor.

Avoid it if you need job security; this field restructures more often than almost any other here.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 39,250 people employed as News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.

At 2.2x the range from $45,370 to $98,450 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 $62,200 midpoint.

In cash terms the middle half of News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists runs $45,370 to $98,450 — $53,080 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $62,200.

Between $45,370 and $98,450 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $62,200. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $36,250; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $53,080.

The upper half of the middle range — $62,200 to $98,450, or $36,250 — is far longer than the lower half at $16,830. In a shape like this an average would flatter News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists considerably, and would describe nobody.

Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $21.81 at the bottom quarter, $29.90 at the midpoint, $47.33 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.