What is Happening with Blogger Salaries

I read an interesting article today by Roland Piquepaille at ITToolbox. He check in with a company called Indeed. This company is a search engine for jobs available in the U.S. Roland refers to a piece written by Erick Schonfeld that discloses Bloggers are making higher salaries that are journalists and reporters.

Roland was not satisfied with the graph and he went a step further:

A graph is nice, but what it is based upon? I decided to go further and here are the results. Indeed has today offers for 226 blogger jobs, 1,225 journalist jobs and 4,973 reporter jobs.

Obviously there are more opportunities in the other areas of writing as blogging jobs don’t seem to be coming out of the woodwork. In fact, many of the blogging positions I have found are based on some type of revenue share with a parent network. The professional bloggers that I encounter own their own blogs and consent and are making their money from advertising space on their blogs as well as PPC campaigns through Google Adsense and other revenue streams.

At Bloggers for Hire we offer a salary based on the negotiation between our service , the company and the blogger. We merely offer a way for smaller businesses that don;t have huge marketing budgets to enter the online world of blogging and getting exposure and buzz about their company. I don’t know of any permanent salaried positions that would allow Indeed to come up with their figure of $39,000.00 annually, but I know bloggers that make much more than that, and I know bloggers that don’t make 10% of that figure. This is still a new profession, and it is a little different that your everyday journalist or reporter, and it even differs from a freelance copy writer that is paid by the word. This is a special position of people that know how to use a blog, know how to write, can engage with readers, and at the same time provide a message for the company that has contracted them. A blogger carries many hats and is asked to a number of things that your everyday journalist or reporter does not do. This could explain the difference in salary, but I would venture to say that the figure given by Indeed is somewhat skewed.

Tags: Blogger Salaries, Blogger Pay, Professional Bloggers, Indeed, Roland Piquepaille, Erick Shonfeld, Hiring Bloggers

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