The South Africa Guild of Editors (SAGE) has published an annual rate card of
recommended salaries for editors for the last 14 years.
SAGE stated that these rates and conditions should be considered negotiable; this is
a guideline, not a rigid set of rules.
You can download the rate card as a PDF.
The tables on the rate card represent a broad spread of possible rates. As providing
a useful guide to all these variables is highly challenging, SAGE has elected to use
broad categories.
SAGE has also, for the last year been running two webforms on their website. One
collects job offers from producers, the other collects reports of job offers from
editors.
The organisation has subsequently made deductions about the average offer being
made, as well as educated guesses about the industry as a whole. This is the first
year SAGE ran both forms, and this is their first analysis released to the public.
You can download a PDF of the analysis here.
