NUJ FFG: recently paid rates for Whatever / Research / all sectors

Whatever / Research / all sectors
recently paid rates - updated 2009-11-10

The following are not suggested rates. They are a selection of rates recently reported to the Rate for the Job service - if any were found for Whatever / Research / all sectors. Please note that these are self-reported; they are rates that the reporter was not dissatisfied with, but standards of dissatisfaction vary; and that a computer sorted them on the basis of these self-reports so some randomness is possible.

The second figure, where given, is for additional rights (use on the web, etc).

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The reported rates

2008_12		Leeds
(university alumni magazine) research for feature (paid on top of word rate) ,			180

2007_11		Leeds
(university alumni magazine) feature research and writing day,			170

2008_07	_TSL	Times Educational Supplement
reporting day - research and writing ,			150

2009_09		private job
4 hours' research ,			100

2009_10		small music promoter
six days writing press release, obtaining pix from friend of band, researching media in north west UK, sending out press releases, phoning to check contacts, no exes			400	0

2006_11	_BBC	Songs of Praise
specialist researcher day, + expenses			130

2006_11	_C4	Channel 4 Radio
podcast: research, record, edit,			150

2007_05	_BBC	Classical Music TV
developing and researching TV programmes,			150

2008_03		Major record label
iTunes podcast - an hour plus research time - , inevitably licensed to all the interwebs			200

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