Survey has business editors' mean salary at $66,870.The mean salary of business editors rose from $62,702 in 2003 to $66,870 in 2004, a 6.6 percent increase, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a survey sponsored by the American Society of Business Publication Editors You can improve this article by adding links to related material, within the existing text. After links have been created, remove this message. For more information, see the . ASBPE ASBPE American Society of Business Publication Editors (professional membership society established in 1964 for business press editors) ASBPE American Society of Business Press Editors cautions that these results are somewhat skewed skewed curve of a usually unimodal distribution with one tail drawn out more than the other and the median will lie above or below the mean. skewed Epidemiology adjective Referring to an asymmetrical distribution of a population or of data because more than 80 percent of the 606 respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy. are senior-level and executive-level editors. The overall median salary rose from $57,000 to $60,000, a 5.2 percent increase. Reported salaries ranged from $10,000 to $600,000. The following listings show mean and median salaries (including expected bonuses) of respondents with different job titles. * Executive-level editor -- $82,370 mean, $72,489 median * Senior-level editor -- $52,955 mean, $49,,000 median * Mid-level editor -- $46.030 mean, $45,800 median * Junior-level editor -- $35,698 mean, $30,000 median * Writer -- $52,576 mean, $46,250 median. Despite the higher salaries, about 40 percent of the editors reported being less satisfied with their jobs than they were two years ago, primarily because of cutbacks and heavy workloads. www.asbpe.org |
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