Hiring Writers and Authors

What to Expect

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Via OOH: Writers and authors develop original written materials for books, magazines, trade journals, online publications, company newsletters, and advertisements. Their works are classified broadly as either fiction or nonfiction and writers often are identified by the type of writing they do—for example, novelists, playwrights, biographers, and textbook writers.

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Writers such as songwriters, screenwriters, or scriptwriters, produce content for radio and television broadcasts, motion pictures, and other types of performances. An increasing number of writers are producing scripted material directly for the Web and other communication devices.

What to Pay

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The writer with an impressive portfolio of work should earn about $31.71 an hour¹.  That’s an hourly savings of $9.60 compared to the writer who is hired as a full-time employee with benefits².

¹Based on 2010 national estimates for this occupation (via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.)
²Based on a total compensation cost of 30.3% (via EBRI.)

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