[BC] Negativity

Tue Apr 24 14:53:08 CDT 2007

When I worked in Western North Dakota doing mornings, even though I was
salaried.. I was working on average, 50 hours a week(some mroe, some
less) and when you take into account those hours.. I was making $6.04 an
hour!

Our part time BOARD OPS were making, on average.. 25 cents more per hour
then more, at least.. in some cases, they paid $6.50 or $7.00 an hour.

Shortly after I left the station, a local taco restaurant was starting up
and the STARTING pay was $10.00 AN HOUR!

If I stayed in town, I could work about 10 less hours per week and still
make as much money.. working the same amount of hours, I would end up with
roughly $800 more per month.

However, I left.. to find another low paying radio job. :)

Paul Walker

On 4/24/07, Dana Puopolo <dpuopolo at usa.net> wrote:
>
> C'mon Willie!
>
> You're much more then an engineer. You also are the morning man, mid day
> guy,
> janitor, etc. etc.
>
> You are very fortunate that you have an owner that's there and 'gets it'.
> These types are becoming rarer all the time.
>
> A few weeks ago, I was asked by a computer type if he should consider
> radio as
> a career. I asked hiom how much per hour he was making as a computer tech:
> "50
> dollars per hour". Then I asked him hiow much he was making working for a
> radio station part time.
> "Fifteen dollars and hour, and they expect me to do computer stuff that
> I'm
> getting 50 an hour for elsewhere".
>
> I told him he had answered his own question.
>
> With very few exceptions, radio engineering salaries have NOT kept up with
> other engineering disciplines, even though the responsibilities that a
> broadscast engineer has has more then doubled. If you want to work more
> hours
> for less real money then you were making 20 years ago, then have at it.
>
> I'm not being negative here, just realistic. If you want to shoot the
> messinger (and some of you obviously do, based upon the nasty emails I've
> received lately), I guess that's your business too. BUT it doesn't change
> the
> facts I and others have presented here. Personally, I feel sad that
> plumbers
> and garbage collectors make more on average then we do. They don't have to
> keep up with technology on their own time. They're not on 24 hour call.
> Their
> benefits are generally better, too.
>
> A friend of mine works in the movie industry as an assiatant editor (nOT
> the
> chied editor). She made over $250,000 last year. Did ANY of you do that
> well?
> She isn't on call, works in better conditions then all of us, and  doesn't
> even have the training or level of experience that most of us have.
>
> The average sales manager in a top 50 market makes well over $100,000. How
> many of you do that well? The average Program Director in a top 50 market
> makes well over $120,000.  The average top 50 market CE makes about HALF
> that
> much-and they think they're being generous paying that much to us.
>
> My brother trains auto mechanics (at the high school level). I asked him
> how
> much they would make after 5 years with ASE certfication (they get it by
> the
> time they graduate). He told me that they should expect $65K on average!
> Many
> of you don't make that much after 10 plus years on the job. Yet these
> kids-5
> years out of high school will get paid more then you. How does THAT make
> you
> feel?
>
> The only way that things will get better for ALL of us is if we want it to
> get
> better!  Writing "feel good" posts here won't do it. Sending me nasty
> emails
> won't do it either. Organization and hard work needs to be done to make
> this
> happen. Or are you satisfied that that 2001 HS graduate is making more $$
> then
> you?
>
> -D
>
>
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:50:21 AM EDT
> From: WFIFeng at aol.com
> To: broadcast at radiolists.net
> Subject: Re: [BC] Negativity
>
>
> In a message dated 04/24/2007 11:40:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> kwinrich at gmail.com writes:
>
> > Isn't it great to have a hobby you can get paid for?
>
> Oh, yes! In more ways than I can describe! :)
>
> Willie...
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Paul B. Walker, Jr.
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