Ask HN: How Much Are Bloggers At Mashable, TechCrunch Paid?

[momzpie]

These blogs - - TechCrunch, Mashable, Gizmodo, Engadget etc - - are really popular, as you all know. I would like to know how much the bloggers at these websites are actually paid.

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PS: This is my first day at HN. I just love the community. :)

[marshallk]

I can't speak for those other blogs but at ReadWriteWeb (the most fabulous blog on the internet, if you ask me) we did some polling and ran this post on pay rates 3 years ago http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_much_do_top_tier_bl... To be honest, given the economy, I doubt things have changed that much since then.

[momzpie]

Marshall, the post says $45K to $90K for full-time bloggers, that's annual pay, right? (I might look sheepish here)

If you can tell us, how much does RWW pay? And yes, it's one of the most fabulous blogs on the Internet.

PS: thank you.

[marshallk]

I cannot disclose RWW's rate of pay but as I said in that post, the higher you go in that continuum, the more likely you are to be a consultant vs a journalist. And we are journalists ;)

[momzpie]

No problem. But thanks for the info.

[anderzole]

I once heard bloggers at TUAW get $15/post. But this was back in 2007, I'm sure it's changed since then. I suppose it also matters if someone is a contributing blogger or a full on staff member like MG Siegler and Sarah Lacy at TC

[ftblogger]

$15 would be pretty low for a major blog, I think. When I was writing for one of the larger tech blogs, I was making about $2000/month for 3 stories per day.

[davidcann]

Then your rate must have been about $22/post, which seems in the same ballpark.

[ftblogger]

Not quite. You're assuming I worked 30 days a month - but I only worked on weekdays. So the pay per post was actually just above $30.

[alain94040]

That's about right. There usually are bonuses based on traffic for instance, so you have an incentive to write something popular.

Generally speaking, writing is not a big money machine (unless you own the blog and sell it - it happens to one blog every other year, so don't count on it).

When I used to write (for print magazines), it paid 10 cents per character. But unlike a blog, you can only write a handful of articles per month, not per day.

[momzpie]

Oh, not bad. That will make the blogger about $3000 per month, right? (at 6 posts per day)

Anyway, thanks for the info anderzole!

[tudorizer]

Welcome to HN ;)

[momzpie]

ThankQ!