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89birddawg
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If $4.50 was the going rate for part-timers in the early 90's, what kind of money was out there in the 80's?
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I started at WKBO in '87 for a staggering $3.35 hr.
It's all about the Benjamins.
It's all about the Benjamins.
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bl40modulimiter2
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$4-$4.50 typically, although there were exceptions--I know by the late 80's WARM was close to $10 for good PTers.
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John-Summers
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Susquehanna was always the exception. I made $10 an hour working part-time at WSBA in 1980. Nobody, but nobody, could beat that or even come close. Later when I was full-time on late nights I was offered morning drive at another station for significantly less than I was making at WSBA, not even considering the cable TV discount they gave you. The guy who offered me the gig tried to tell me the "prestige" of doing morning drive was somehow worth the cut in pay. Really! And then was offended when I turned him down!
Well.."If you're going to make this about MONEY...."
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bl40modulimiter2
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Heh--John, sounds like you interviewed with John Lawrence at YCR circa '83 for AM Drive when they blew out JJ Randolph. Perfect description of how things were done there. I took that job as the highest paid jock in the history of the station (so they said) at $5.50 an hour. But no worries, you got a nickel raise every 6 months and the Cokes were only 10 cents.
So am I right?
So am I right?
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John-Summers
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A lot of people nowadays would be happy to get that nickel raise, BL! Actually it was not WYCR. It was WOYK 1350, when they were mounting their short-lived Oldies format. I had done mornings on 1350 when it was Top 40 WZIX in the 70s and I guess they thought I would be a good fit. The details of the gig were even worse than described, quite apart from the pay. It was a 5-hour morning shift (and they steadfastly refused to reduce it to 4) and you also had to do a weekly gig at a local nightclub, on Tuesday night until 2am as part of the job, for no extra compensation. The interviewer appeared incredulous when I told him that I was making much more doing late nights at WSBA. That's when the "prestige" idea was presented. I said that I was working at W-S-B-A. I had all the prestige I needed. Things wrapped up rather quickly after that.
Actually it was not WYCR. It was WOYK 1350, when they were mounting their short-lived Oldies format. I had done mornings on 1350 when it was Top 40 WZIX in the 70s and I guess they thought I would be a good fit. The details of the gig were even worse than described, quite apart from the pay. It was a 5-hour morning shift (and they steadfastly refused to reduce it to 4) and you also had to do a weekly gig at a local nightclub, on Tuesday night until 2am as part of the job, for no extra compensation. The interviewer appeared incredulous when I told him that I was making much more doing late nights at WSBA. That's when the "prestige" idea was presented. I said that I was working at W-S-B-A. I had all the prestige I needed. Things wrapped up rather quickly after that.Here's a memory: in August 1982, after losing my full-time gig at WQVE (top 40 QV93, now WTPA), I got a part-time gig at WKBO. As I recall at the time, minimum wage was about $3.35 per hour. A middle of the pack "good" wage was $4.00 per hour for part-time and really well-paying stations paid their top part-timers $5.00 per hour. So you can imagine my surprise when PD Tim Burns said to me "will $6.00 an hour be OK?"
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bl40modulimiter2
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Somewhere in a box in a galaxy far far away, I still have my first pay stub from WGCB AM-FM, circa '79---$2.65 an hour! I liked Jimmy Carter, every time he raised minimum wage, I got a raise!
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