Anonymous
Post 09/07/2022 23:49     Subject: Re:Journalism grad making 130k salary in the media industry at 30... good or bad?
Most journalism grads I know have been through layoffs multiple times in their careers. Give me the case for why this is “bad”?
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2022 23:33     Subject: Journalism grad making 130k salary in the media industry at 30... good or bad?
Anonymous wrote:Definitely an outlier - high salary
And I know a lot of journalists


+1 sounds like a unicorn.
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2022 23:32     Subject: Journalism grad making 130k salary in the media industry at 30... good or bad?
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
Post 09/07/2022 23:26     Subject: Journalism grad making 130k salary in the media industry at 30... good or bad?
What did you do after you left journalism?
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2022 23:17     Subject: Journalism grad making 130k salary in the media industry at 30... good or bad?
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
Post 09/07/2022 23:13     Subject: Journalism grad making 130k salary in the media industry at 30... good or bad?
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
Post 09/07/2022 20:59     Subject: Journalism grad making 130k salary in the media industry at 30... good or bad?
Sounds very good for journalism and any other major, for that matter.
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2022 20:47     Subject: Journalism grad making 130k salary in the media industry at 30... good or bad?
Anyone in journalism is bad
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2022 18:52     Subject: Journalism grad making 130k salary in the media industry at 30... good or bad?
If they're paying the bills who gives a shit.
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2022 18:43     Subject: Journalism grad making 130k salary in the media industry at 30... good or bad?
It is very good for a journalist IF they didn’t waste a bunch of money on J-school=loans
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2022 18:33     Subject: Journalism grad making 130k salary in the media industry at 30... good or bad?
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
Post 09/07/2022 18:30     Subject: Journalism grad making 130k salary in the media industry at 30... good or bad?
The average salary for Americans in their peak earning years is under $60K, so yeah double that at 30 is pretty good.
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2022 18:25     Subject: Journalism grad making 130k salary in the media industry at 30... good or bad?
Dp but what salary do you think a moderately successful college educated white-collar 30yo would make (in order to be considered successful)?
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2022 18:18     Subject: Journalism grad making 130k salary in the media industry at 30... good or bad?
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
Post 09/07/2022 17:58     Subject: Journalism grad making 130k salary in the media industry at 30... good or bad?
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.