Q&Q Omni Category: Salary surveys

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Life in the book trade: Lamenting the pay, loving the work

June 1, 2008 | 2:44 PM | By Scott MacDonald

To download this article as a PDF, complete with the associated charts, click here. (Requires a Q&Q Omni membership) You are a publishing industry... Read the rest »

The quest to sharpen skills: Opportunities for professional development are out there, but some want more

June 1, 2008 | 2:46 PM | By Steven W. Beattie

This past April in Vancouver, young publishing employees from various firms gathered to discuss their careers. The informal meeting was put together by Selina Rajani,... Read the rest »

Workplace survey 2005: This year’s results show job satisfaction on the wane

July 1, 2005 | 5:53 PM | By Scott MacDonald

Because salaries in the publishing industry have always been notoriously low, the general assumption is that people go into this line of work for love:... Read the rest »

2000 salary survey: The lure of the Web: Does publishing face a brain drain?

August 1, 2000 | 6:00 PM | By Kim Askew

What’s keeping well-educated, talented people from moving to industries where their skills would be far better recompensed? Why are eager new recruits willing to do anything – read the slush pile, sweep the floor, anything at all – to be part of the business? “It has to be the love of writing and the love of books,” says Trish McGill, vice-president of human resources at Random House. Read the rest »

1998 salary survey: Better living: Q&Q’s workplace survey finds publishing employees more optimistic than ever, but yearning for better pay

August 1, 1998 | 5:56 PM | By Scott Anderson

Their wages increased only marginally, and they’re working about the same number of hours, but publishing employees are a lot more enthusiastic about their jobs... Read the rest »

1997 salary survey: The pay is poor, the hours are long, but publishers and booksellers say their jobs are tops

June 1, 1997 | 5:56 PM | By Scott Anderson

They expressed a variety of complaints about pay, benefits, and prospects, but publishers and booksellers who responded to Quill & Quire’s first annual workplace survey... Read the rest »