Radio salaries rose 3.1% from last year – after dropping 4.1% a year ago and barely moving the year before that. Factor in low inflation, and radio salaries gained almost 2 points in the last year. Still, a comparatively good year, according to Bob Papper, Professor Emeritus - Hofstra University.
Papper has release the latest RTDNA/Hofstra University Annual Survey.
Overall, this was the best year for radio salaries in a number of years.
News directors, producers and sports anchors went up in salary. News reporters, anchors and sports reporters all stayed the same. Web producers/editors fell a little.
As for healthcare benefits in radio, nearly two-thirds (64.9%) said those benefits were the same as they had been 5 to 10 years ago. But two-thirds of the rest (21.5% of the total) said health care benefits were lower than they had been. A total of 13.5% said more. Commercial stations were twice as likely to say lower as non-commercial. Stations with smaller staffs and those in bigger groups were more likely to say health care benefits were lower than they had been.
The survey also found that local television news salaries rose by 4.8% in 2015. That's more than double last year’s 1.9% increase. And with inflation an extremely low 1.3%, that means that TV news salaries gained three and a half percent in purchasing power last year. A year ago, the spread between inflation and TV salaries was just 0.3.
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