Yesterday I wrote about salaries in visual journalism. Although the term visual journalism, for some people, may include videography, graphic arts and design, I was referring primarily to the field of news photography or photojournalism.
In my rush to make a point I found only a few references online to what the median income of a photojournalist is today. I only found two sources for the figures that indicated the median salary for entry-level photojournalists at approximately $24,000 a year, and that was for 2000 and 2002.
I would imagine that salaries are dependent also on location and the size of the newspaper. Greg Smith in a commentary on the Digital Journalist website did suggest that the average salary at a media size daily newspaper for photojournalists in about $40,000.
Nowhere in my search did I find salaries ranging in scale from $50,000 to $150,000 for entry-level photographers as suggested in claims made by Brooks Institute recruiters.