The NewsGuild-CWA holds contracts with more than 270 media organizations in the U.S. and Canada. These reporter salaries (shown below, with the number of years needed to achieve them on the right) represent the minimum pay required in NewsGuild collective bargaining agreements.
The rates were effective on or before Jan. 1, 2018. Actual salaries may be higher, based on contract provisions that allow for salary payments above the minimum levels.
NEWS ORGANIZATIONS | WEEKLY RATE | YEARS |
Thomson-Reuters of Canada | $1,949.62 | 6 |
New York Times & New York Times Digital | $1,924.38 | 2 |
The Guardian, U.S. | $1,854.33 | 4 |
Shaw Media (Formerly CTV Ottawa) | $1,845.81 | 8 |
Agence France Presse, CAN | $1,838.32 | 7 |
Radio Free Asia | $1,739.60 | 2 |
Thomson-Reuters U.S. | $1,735.76 | 0 |
Catholic News Service | $1,648.00 | 5 |
Sacramento Bee | $1,609.50 | 3 |
Victoria Times-Colonist | $1,606.41 | 5 |
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | $1,591.36 | 9 |
Canadian Press & Broadcast News | $1,547.27 | 6 |
Agence France Presse, U.S. | $1,499.69 | 7 |
Ottawa Citizen | $1,473.49 | 6 |
Aboriginal People’s Television Network-Current Affairs | $1,466.04 | 9 |
St. Louis Review | $1,447.73 | 5 |
Montreal Gazette | $1,436.00 | 6 |
Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal | $1,423.55 | 6 |
St. Paul Pioneer Press | $1,421.99 | 6 |
Boston Globe | $1,390.28 | 5 |
Minneapolis Star-Tribune | $1,383.61 | 6 |
San Francisco Chronicle | $1,353.00 | 6 |
Denver Post | $1,331.00 | 6 |
Halifax Chronicle Herald Limited | $1,330.02 | 5 |
Associated Press | $1,317.82 | 6 |
Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News | $1,273.00 | 4 |
Philly.com | $1,273.00 | 5 |
Providence Journal | $1,269.75 | 5 |
Chicago Sun-Times | $1,269.27 | 5 |
St. Louis Post-Dispatch | $1,245.92 | 8 |
EFE News Services, Inc. | $1,243.10 | 4 |
Buffalo News | $1,235.10 | 5 |
Honolulu Star-Advertiser | $1,218.70 | 5 |
TVOntario | $1,218.54 | 5 |
Moncton Times-Transcript | $1,216.30 | 5 |
Red Deer Advocate | $1,212.79 | 5 |
Regina Leader Post/Sunday Sun | $1,203.00 | 5 |
San Jose Mercury News | $1,202.00 | 6 |
Cleveland Plain Dealer | $1,197.16 | 5 |
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | $1,188.00 | 4 |
Baltimore Sun | $1,187.00 | 6 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | $1,172.36 | 5 |
Boston Herald | $1,152.31 | 5 |
Sudbury Star | $1,141.10 | 6 |
Erie Times-News | $1,136.31 | 6 |
North Bay Nugget | $1,129.64 | 5 |
Santa Rosa Press Democrat | $1,126.54 | 6 |
Quincy Patriot Ledger | $1,110.00 | 5 |
St. John Telegraph Journal | $1,097.86 | 5 |
Washington Post | $1,096.03 | 5 |
Vice Studio Canada | $1,076.92 | 1 |
Fredericton Daily Gleaner | $1,075.47 | 5 |
Cape Breton Post | $1,075.24 | 6 |
WPIX-TV | $1,072.75 | 4 |
TFOntario (French) | $1,071.76 | 5 |
Waukegan News-Sun | $1,069.16 | 5 |
Seattle Times | $1,055.40 | 6 |
Peoria Journal Star | $1,052.04 | 5 |
Delaware County Times | $1,052.00 | 10 |
Time, Inc. | $1,046.00 | 1 |
Kingston Whig-Standard | $1,042.67 | 5 |
El-Diario-La Prensa | $1,040.08 | 5 |
Sault Star | $1,034.25 | 6 |
Akron Beacon Journal | $1,020.00 | 5 |
Worcester Telegram & Gazette | $1,018.00 | 5 |
Albany Times Union | $998.48 | 5 |
Memphis Commercial Appeal | $996.96 | 5 |
Detroit Free Press | $980.81 | 5 |
Daily Beast Online Magazine | $980.77 | 1 |
Wailuku Maui News | $980.12 | 5 |
Kenosha News | $963.98 | 6 |
Glenview Pioneer Press | $962.23 | 6 |
Portland Press Herald | $957.14 | 5 |
Duluth News-Tribune | $949.69 | 6 |
Peterborough Examiner | $948.76 | 6 |
Jewish Forward | $947.83 | 2 |
Yakima Herald Republic | $946.00 | 4 |
Pottstown Mercury | $937.00 | 4 |
Canton Repository | $932.29 | 6 |
Eugene Register Guard | $933.70 | 6 |
Skagit Valley Herald | $920.00 | 5 |
Amsterdam News | $909.73 | 6 |
Chicago Reader | $900.32 | 20 |
Jersey City Jersey Journal | $896.88 | 4 |
Detroit News | $892.57 | 5 |
Hilo Hawaii Tribune-Herald | $890.62 | 5 |
Detroit Observer & Eccentric | $890.18 | 5 |
Kitsap Sun | $881.20 | 6 |
Brockton Enterprise and Times | $874.17 | 5 |
Scranton Times-Tribune | $868.35 | 4 |
Manchester Union Leader/New Hampshire News | $861.40 | 3 |
York Dispatch | $860.32 | 4 |
Lexington Herald-Leader | $849.75 | 5 |
Fresno Bee | $848.54 | 3 |
Fall River Herald-News | $820.90 | 5 |
Independent Newspapers: | ||
Macomb Daily and Royal Oak Daily Tribune | $818.00 | 5 |
York Daily Record | $818.00 | 4 |
Indianapolis Star | $806.58 | 6 |
Medicine Hat News | $805.13 | 5 |
Modesto Bee | $795.00 | 6 |
Glenview Pioneer Press | $783.76 | 6 |
Terre Haute Tribune-Star | $779.88 | 5 |
Sioux City Journal | $777.00 | 8 |
Kingston Daily Freeman | $773.00 | 5 |
Bay Area Newspaper Group: | $772.50 | 0 |
Contra Costa Times, East Bay Times, Hayward Daily Review, | ||
Oakland Tribune and San Mateo County Times | ||
Pueblo Chieftain | $772.31 | 5 |
Massillon Independent | $770.05 | 4 |
Knoxville News-Sentinel | $745.83 | 4 |
Youngstown Vindicator | $738.55 | 5 |
Toledo Blade | $732.24 | 4 |
Cowichan Valley Citizen | $727.50 | 5 |
Monterey Herald | $718.00 | 3 |
Gary Post Tribune | $717.65 | 6 |
St. Louis Labor Tribune | $692.53 | 6 |
Hazleton Standard-Speaker | $691.65 | 6 |
Scholastic Magazine | $685.17 | 1 |
Waterville Morning Sentinel | $678.98 | 4 |
United Press International | $662.24 | 4 |
Norwalk Hour | $655.93 | 1 |
Wilkes-Barre Citizens’ Voice | $640.37 | 4 |
Pawtucket Times | $630.00 | 3 |
Woonsocket Call | $630.00 | 3 |
Bakersfield Californian | $608.00 | 3 |
Sheboygan Press | $560.00 | 5 |
Norristown Times Herald | $553.96 | 6 |
Pekin Daily Times | $423.20 | 1 |
Dayton Daily News | $394.62 | 1 |