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Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN
You make it sound like there is ZERO money in radio, like everyone makes 30k a year or something. When I went into the parking garage a couple hours ago, I saw a few new BMW's, a Range Rover, a new Camaro and a slick Audi. I'm not a huge car guy, so I don't know the models, but I can't imagine those cars came cheap. There is money to be made in the industry.
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How many of those flashy cars are owned by the station management and sales people? That's where the money is. Also, IIRC, you're at one of the bigger stations in Vancouver, so, I assume most of the people working there have already done their time toiling away in the horrible one-horse towns of radio.
I would have killed to make $30,000 a year at any point during my broadcasting career. Of course, that was over a decade ago, so inflation (and increases to the minimum wage) would have driven the salaries up, but the money is pretty bad, especially when you're starting out.
I took the Broadcasting course at Mount Royal back in the 90s, and left the industry in 1999, so I'm out of date at this point, but my first job was an evening shift while I was still in school and it paid $6/hour at a time when the minimum wage was $5.50. My first full-time job was in Lloydminster (where many broadcasting careers got their start) in tv, and one time someone posted a McDonald's want ad from the local paper on the staff bulletin board because the starting wage was greater than what our starting wage was.
Now, oddly enough, having the broadcasting experience on my resume played a big role in me getting the two jobs I've had since I left the industry, so it worked out well for me.