Music Journalists Make $70k A Year?
According to research by Berklee College of Music, music journalists can make up to $70,000 a year, or a helluva lot better than what freelance business journalists make.
TBD checked the numbers with a few people in the business. According to freelance pop critic Andy Greenwald, “That’s exactly the range that I was gonna say.”
On the other hand, despite Spin‘s staff shrinking to 6, a reduction in the per-word rate the mag pays freelancers, and a lack of raises for staff for three years, music journalist salaries “go higher than that,” Spin‘s editor Doug Brod told TBD.
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