Small Market anchor salary

[stevieboy247 42]

TV News anchors from New York, Los Angeles, and other cities get paid either millions or thousands. But what about Small Market anchors? Do they get paid more or less than big market anchors? You Be The Judge!!!

[DFW11anchorman 0]

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say...less

[tvpirate05 1]

TV News anchors from New York, Los Angeles, and other cities get paid either millions or thousands. But what about Small Market anchors? Do they get paid more or less than big market anchors? You Be The Judge!!!

Way less. Don't know what size market you're talking about, but I'm sure in a sub-100 or sub-150, $20,000 is considered a lot. I talked to one anchor who worked in a smaller market and she said she made $16,000 to anchor, as well as write and edit. Smaller market anchors are sometimes the producer and occasionally, photographers.

 

http://www.rtnda.org/research/salaries.shtml There's a nice site I like to refer to, just keep in mind that the list is six years old, so you might wanna slightly adjust for inflation.

[newsdude 41]

I know someone who made $26k anchoring the main shows in a mid-70s market.

[qwertywcbs 0]

yeah... call me crazy, but i say less.

 

because otherwise... why would new york and l.a. be able to take an anchor out of markets sub-10 and be able to bring them in as a very low paid market anchor.

 

you don't hear about an anchor who made the choice to leave a lead job in new york to go anchor the morning news in nowhereville, america.

[alaskanews 108]

it also depends on how much of an audience your station has. ktuu has anywhere from 70-90% of the news watching audience in alaska, we speculate that our news director and main anchor makes 6 figures.