Journalism grad making 130k salary in the media industry at 30... good or bad?

[Anonymous]

of course is a great salary and at that age. My DH is a journalism major who moved to corporate content marketing and makes $110K in his 50s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:having a job as a journalist in 2022 and getting paid is pretty much shocking at this point.

Of course, maybe the journalism major isn't working for a newspaper / news station and is a blogger or youtuber.

This. Your journalism grad is kind of a unicorn.

[Anonymous]

Dp but what salary do you think a moderately successful college educated white-collar 30yo would make (in order to be considered successful)?

[Anonymous]

The average salary for Americans in their peak earning years is under $60K, so yeah double that at 30 is pretty good.

[Anonymous]

I’m in a research field that is somewhat parallel to journalism and often hires journalists. Think I was only making about 100k at 30, so seems good to me

[Anonymous]

It is very good for a journalist IF they didn’t waste a bunch of money on J-school=loans

[Anonymous]

If they're paying the bills who gives a shit.

[Anonymous]

Anyone in journalism is bad

[Anonymous]

Sounds very good for journalism and any other major, for that matter.

[Anonymous]

Good for that person, I thought journalist was a fairly low paying job unless you work for a major newsletter or are a famous newscaster. I only make slightly more than that as a senior consultant for a major consulting firm.

[Anonymous]

i made this (equivalent with inflation) aged 30 as a journalism grad. but i left journalism 5 years afterwards bc I realized $200k (MAYBE 250) is pretty much the ceiling in journalism. so it's fine but it wont get much much better.

[Anonymous]

What did you do after you left journalism?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i made this (equivalent with inflation) aged 30 as a journalism grad. but i left journalism 5 years afterwards bc I realized $200k (MAYBE 250) is pretty much the ceiling in journalism. so it's fine but it wont get much much better.

Seems like that salary is a huge outlier in journalism and many never crack $100k

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Definitely an outlier - high salary
And I know a lot of journalists

+1 sounds like a unicorn.

[Anonymous]

Most journalism grads I know have been through layoffs multiple times in their careers. Give me the case for why this is “bad”?