NUJ Rate for the Job:
Photography / regional
Updated: 2019-01-22
These rates have been reported by members of the National Union of Journalists and others, and printed in the Freelance, newsletter of London Freelance Branch. They are sorted by publisher/publication, then by date (most recent first). TIP: Use the "Find in page" command under your browser's "Edit" or "Search" menu to be sure of finding all occurrences of a publication/publisher. AND do note the year in which the rate was reported! See also the Freelance Fees Guide, which gives general recommendations. And read the disclaimer and the key to exactly what the entries mean.
Photography - whether paid by the day, the hour or per picture - whose primary use is in a regional newspaper. (Generic rates for publishing groups appear at the end.) See also national papers. | ||||||
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Publication / Programme - details & terms | Group | Year | ![]() |
Total paid | GR |
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Barnsley Chronicle per pic | __misc | 2005 | ![]() |
4.00 | GR | X^9! |
Belfast Telegraph Picture desk Monday to Friday rate, plus parking, mileage 58p per | _INM | 2017 | ![]() |
84.00 | XX | |
Belfast Telegraph Picture desk Sunday rate, plus parking, mileage 58p per | _INM | 2017 | ![]() |
108.00 | X | |
Belfast Telegraph Picture desk Saturday rate | _INM | 2017 | ![]() |
100.00 | X | |
Belfast Telegraph Image used anywhere in the paper Used on all titles | _INM | 2017 | ![]() |
25.00 | GR | X |
Belfast Telegraph image use per photo online | _INM | 2015 | ![]() |
15.00 | GR | XX |
Belfast Telegraph photo day | _INM | 2013 | ![]() |
74.00 | GR | XXX |
Belfast Telegraph per pic | _INM | 2013 | ![]() |
25.00 | GR | XX |
Blackmore Vale Community Magazine photos per pic | _TMG | 2006 | ![]() |
15.00 | XXXX | |
Blackpool Gazette day shift - mileage @ 25p per mile | _Johnsto | 2018 | ![]() |
120.00 | GR | |
Bolton Evening News, also Bury Times, Radliffe Per first picture on an assignment want any further use - including web or anything they fancy as often as they want! | _NQ | 2003 | ![]() |
18.00 | GR | XXX |
Bolton Evening News, also Bury Times, Radliffe day shift all rights demanded | _NQ | 2003 | ![]() |
75.00 | GR | XX |
Bolton Evening News, also Bury Times, Radliffe additional pic used on same assignment want any further use - including web or anything they fancy as often as they want! | _NQ | 2003 | ![]() |
5.00 | GR | XXX |
Bournemouth Daily Echo per pic FBS | _NQ | 2006 | ![]() |
10.00 | XXXX | |
Bristol Evening Post picture on spec 1st use - reuse fee lower depending on size; no expenses | _Assoc | 2007 | ![]() |
40.00 | ||
Bristol Evening Post single job unlimited reuse within Bristol papers; expenses 46p per mile, 50p per pic wired on location; no tax deductions | _Assoc | 2007 | ![]() |
40.00 | XXX | |
Bristol Evening Post day shift unlimited reuse within Bristol papers; expenses 46p per mile, 50p per pic wired on location; no tax deductions | _Assoc | 2007 | ![]() |
95.00 | XX | |
Bristol Post photoshoot and copy pics for spread FBS + web use | _Assoc | 2013 | ![]() |
85.00 | ||
Bury Free Press per day photographing all rights; mileage paid at 40ppm | _Johnsto | 2005 | ![]() |
70.00 | X | |
Cambrian News Photos, per pic single use print and online | _Tindle | 2015 | ![]() |
13.00 | ||
Cambrian News per pic | _Tindle | 2005 | ![]() |
10.00 | XXX | |
Cambridge Evening News day including expenses | 2008 | ![]() |
100.00 | XXXX | ||
Camden New Journal per pic | 2014 | ![]() |
40.00 | X | ||
Carlisle News + Star photo day 40p per mile | _Cumbria | 2013 | ![]() |
80.00 | GR | |
Carlisle News + Star per pic | _Cumbria | 2008 | ![]() |
10.00 | XXXX | |
Cheltenham Echo photography day shift | _Assoc | 2006 | ![]() |
140.00 | ||
Chronicle and Echo per pic: yes, zero for spot news per pic + web use and repeat use | _Johnsto | 2009 | ![]() |
0.00 | GR | XX^9 |
Derry Journal one pic - used 8" x 6.5" | _TMG | 2005 | ![]() |
12.50 | XXX | |
Docklands Recorder per photo - no exes | _ECN | 2006 | ![]() |
35.00 | XXX | |
Dundee Courier per pic | _DCT | 2008 | ![]() |
10.50 | XXX | |
Ealing Gazette one pic | _TMG | 2006 | ![]() |
25.00 | XXXX | |
East Anglia Daily Times day | _ECN | 2008 | ![]() |
100.00 | XXXX | |
East Anglian Daily Times photos per pic free reuse in any Archant publication | _ECN | 2003 | ![]() |
25.00 | GR | XX |
East Anglian Daily Times 1 pic Single use | _ECN | 2001 | ![]() |
50.00 | GR | |
East Anglian Daily Times per pic | _ECN | 1997 | ![]() |
40.00 | ||
East Durham Life Half-day, mileage paid | 2018 | ![]() |
60.00 | GR | ||
East London Advertiser 2 stock pics they desperately wanted (saw off attempt to drop rates to £35 for 1st and £15 for others) | _ECN | 2008 | ![]() |
100.00 | GR | |
East London Advertiser per print published | _ECN | 2008 | ![]() |
35.00 | XX | |
East London Advertiser shoot - 1 photo used | _ECN | 2008 | ![]() |
35.00 | XXXX | |
East London Advertiser shoot - half day | _ECN | 2008 | ![]() |
150.00 | GR | XX |
Eastern Daily Press, Evening News (Norwich) and any repro up to 1/4 page; they claim not to be able to pay freelancers at all, offering just a byline, but if you push... FBS - single use, single edition, not across titles | _ECN | 2005 | ![]() |
80.00 | ||
Evening Gazette day | _TMG | 2005 | ![]() |
90.00 | GR | |
Evening Leader (Wrexham) per pic | _NWN | 2005 | ![]() |
10.00 | XXX | |
Evening News Edinburgh 8 hour shift all rights | _BarcB | 2001 | ![]() |
120.00 | ||
Evening Telegraph single photo reproduction from submission of 10, prod/exes nil , terms Single Repro, No Re-Sale, No Re-use | _DCT | 2008 | ![]() |
10.50 | GR | XXXX |
Express+Star (West Midlands) 'short' feature and a colour pic | 1994 | ![]() |
50.00 | XX | ||
Glasgow Evening Times Two photos, one 7"x9" and one 2"x3" FBS supplied with CCS form | _SMG | 2003 | ![]() |
85.00 | ||
Hackney Gazette one job | _ECN | 2009 | ![]() |
35.00 | ||
Hackney Gazette sport pic 5 miles away for use as often as they wish in various Archant papers and internet | _ECN | 2005 | ![]() |
25.00 | XXX | |
Hackney Gazette covering cricket game 2h + transmission of 10 pics/no extras free re-use in any Archant publication | _ECN | 2005 | ![]() |
25.00 | XXX | |
Ham + High one job | _ECN | 2009 | ![]() |
30.00 | ||
Ham and High per job | _ECN | 2008 | ![]() |
30.00 | XX | |
Ham and High per job - work unused | _ECN | 2008 | ![]() |
150.00 | O | |
Ham and High per print published | _ECN | 2008 | ![]() |
35.00 | ||
Hamilton Advertiser photography, per picture, no exes | _TMG | 2013 | ![]() |
20.00 | GR | XX |
Hammersmith + Fulham News (Hammersmith & Fulham Council) shift: new editor 'changed from paying PR rates to regional newspaper rates for the same work' | _HMG | 2008 | ![]() |
125.00 | ? | |
Hartlepool Life Half-day, mileage paid | 2018 | ![]() |
60.00 | GR | ||
Highbury + Islington Express selection of 10 pics covering a football match free re-use in any Archant publication | _ECN | 2005 | ![]() |
25.00 | XXX | |
Hornsey Journal per pic | _ECN | 2006 | ![]() |
20.00 | XXX | |
Inverness Courier commission (from 1 event/story) - £20 for 1st + 2nd pic, £15 for 3rd pic, £10 each for any others. mileage - 38p per mile (but not for the first 6 miles!) | _SPP | 2007 | ![]() |
20.00 | ||
Ipswich Evening Star Photograph and ISDN 6 Pictures from American Football Final, Sheffield | _ECN | 2000 | ![]() |
85.00 | ||
Kentish Times day plus expenses | _ECN | 2007 | ![]() |
75.00 | XX | |
Kentish Times day rate travel expenses paid | _ECN | 2006 | ![]() |
75.00 | ||
Lancashire Post day shift - plus mileage @ 25p per mile | _Johnsto | 2018 | ![]() |
120.00 | GR | |
Lancashire Telegraph day shift - mileage not paid | _NQ | 2018 | ![]() |
110.00 | GR | XXX |
Leinster Express per pic repeat use and web use, exes 0.62 per mile | _Johnsto | 2008 | ![]() |
12.50 | XXX | |
Leinster Express per pic single use no web use | _Johnsto | 2007 | ![]() |
10.00 | XXXX | |
Liverpool Daily Post + Echo picture FBS | _TMG | 2005 | ![]() |
50.00 | XX | |
londonlite day | _Assoc | 2008 | ![]() |
240.00 | ||
Luton on Sunday (Local World) photo one use | 2015 | ![]() |
30.00 | X | ||
Manchester Evening News shift (8 hours) all in rate - no expenses full unlimited use across Trinity Mirror titles. 50/50 split on any syndication sales | _TMG | 2014 | ![]() |
120.00 | XXX | |
Manchester Evening News shift (8 hours) all in rate - no expenses full unlimited use across Trinity Mirror titles. 50/50 split on any syndication sales | _TMG | 2014 | ![]() |
120.00 | XXX | |
Manchester Evening News 8-hour day | _TMG | 2013 | ![]() |
120.00 | GR | |
Manchester Evening News 8 hour shift, 1 or 2 jobs, no exes licensed for all uses but syndication by firm split 50/50 | _TMG | 2013 | ![]() |
120.00 | ||
Manchester Evening News in-house use only | _GMG | 2009 | ![]() |
35.00 | X | |
Manchester Evening News picture 7 day online licence | _GMG | 2007 | ![]() |
425.00 | GR | |
Manchester Evening News picture 1 day online licence | _GMG | 2007 | ![]() |
85.00 | GR | |
Manchester Evening News 8hr shift: rate was £110+ exes(average £30-40) - now offering all-in | _GMG | 2006 | ![]() |
120.00 | GR | XXX |
Manchester Evening News submitted pic, colour, up to 130sq cm licence includes further uses at half this rate | _GMG | 2004 | ![]() |
36.55 | GR | X |
Manchester Evening News submitted pic, B+W, up to 65sq cm licence includes further uses at half this rate | _GMG | 2004 | ![]() |
24.56 | GR | X |
Manchester Evening News day | _GMG | 2004 | ![]() |
94.25 | GR | |
Manchester Evening News ordered job | _GMG | 2004 | ![]() |
35.00 | GR | X |
Manchester Evening News submitted pic, B+W, up to 130sq cm licence includes further uses at half this rate | _GMG | 2004 | ![]() |
27.00 | GR | X |
Middlesex Chronicle day shift | _TMG | 2007 | ![]() |
90.00 | GR | XX |
Newbury Weekly News per half shift, regardless of how many jobs, +40p per mile unlimited use | 2006 | ![]() |
40.00 | GR | XXX | |
Newcastle Evening Chronicle front page, half page pic (tabloid) single use 1st exclusive | _TMG | 2006 | ![]() |
50.00 | ||
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Evening Chronicle submitted pics single use | _TMG | 2006 | ![]() |
40.00 | GR | XX |
Newham News job+exes | 1996 | ![]() |
50.00 | |||
Newtownabbey Times £50 per day, no expenses, expected to work up to 12 hours, prod/exes none, seem to do what they want with photos without consultation | _Johnsto | 2009 | ![]() |
50.00 | GR | |
North Wales Pioneer per pic | _NWN | 2005 | ![]() |
10.00 | XXX | |
Northern Echo day | _Gannett | 2005 | ![]() |
85.00 | GR | X |
Northern Echo single pic sports | _NQ | 2002 | ![]() |
50.00 | ||
Northwest Enquirer half page photo | 2006 | ![]() |
40.00 | X | ||
Nottingham Evening Post job | _Assoc | 2005 | ![]() |
50.00 | XXX | |
Oban Times front page lead photo | __misc | 2006 | ![]() |
50.00 | ||
Offaly Express per pic repeat use and web use, exes 0.62 per mile | _Johnsto | 2008 | ![]() |
12.50 | XXX | |
Offaly Express per pic single use no web use | _Johnsto | 2007 | ![]() |
10.00 | XXXX | |
Redditch Standard Photography per day, no exes | 2015 | ![]() |
100.00 | GR | XXX | |
Sheffield Star shift FBS | _Johnsto | 2006 | ![]() |
65.00 | GR | X |
Sheffield Star Shift | _RIM | 2000 | ![]() |
60.00 | X | |
Shrewsbury Chronicle day | _MNA | 2008 | ![]() |
80.00 | X | |
Shrewsbury Chronicle per picture | _MNA | 2008 | ![]() |
7.00 | XXXX | |
Slough and Windsor Express day shift no expenses, same shift rate for 4 years | _TMG | 2006 | ![]() |
90.00 | GR | |
Slough and Windsor Express day shift no expenses | _TMG | 2006 | ![]() |
90.00 | GR | XX |
Slough and Windsor Observer day shift no expenses | _CF | 2006 | ![]() |
90.00 | GR | XXX |
South London Press photography day shift | _TMG | 2006 | ![]() |
100.00 | X | |
South London Press day | _TMG | 2004 | ![]() |
100.00 | ||
South London Press day shift | _TMG | 2004 | ![]() |
100.00 | ||
South Shropshire Journal per photo printed FBS | 2007 | ![]() |
5.00 | XXXX | ||
Stratford Guardian 2 frontpage pics single UK print use | _NQ | 2006 | ![]() |
60.00 | X | |
Stroud News + Journal photographs of local performers, events Not paid at all. Photographs are often used without accreditation or worse still with the paper's reference no. next to the photograph!! | _NQ | 2006 | ![]() |
0.00 | X!%X | |
Sunday Life Iimage used anywhere in the paper | _INM | 2017 | ![]() |
25.00 | X | |
Sunday Life Picture desk Monday to Friday rate, plus parking, mileage 58p per | _INM | 2017 | ![]() |
84.00 | XX | |
Sunday Life Picture desk - Saturday rate, plus parking, mileage 58p | _INM | 2017 | ![]() |
100.00 | X | |
Sunday Life Picture desk Sunday rate, plus parking, mileage 58p per | _INM | 2017 | ![]() |
108.00 | X | |
Sunday Life photography day | _INM | 2013 | ![]() |
84.00 | GR | XXX |
Sunday Life per pic | _INM | 2013 | ![]() |
25.00 | GR | X |
Sunday Post single photo reproduction from submission of 10 , prod/exes £25.00 , terms single repro, no re-sale, no re-use | _DCT | 2008 | ![]() |
50.00 | GR | X |
Sunday Post 1 pic used at 2 col + £25 wire fee; single use (as per iptc file) | _DCT | 2005 | ![]() |
50.00 | GR | |
Surrey Mirror offers students per day | 1999 | ![]() |
0.00 | XX | ||
Swansea Evening Post front page pic | _TMG | 2003 | ![]() |
15.00 | XXX | |
Swindon Advertiser £20 per job. Minimum £80 , mileage @ 37p pm + wire fee 50p per image FBS | _NQ | 2013 | ![]() |
20.00 | XX | |
The Bolton News per image , terms single use, no web | _NQ | 2008 | ![]() |
12.00 | XXX | |
The Courier single photo reproduction from submission of 10 , terms Single Repro, No Re-Sale, No Re-use | _DCT | 2008 | ![]() |
28.00 | GR | XXX |
The Courier, Dundee photo for other title in group, not licenced for this paper editor said would pay three times normal! | _DCT | 2006 | ![]() |
50.00 | XXXX | |
The Derry Journal news photo | _Johnsto | 2008 | ![]() |
12.50 | XXX | |
The Forester / The Citizen (Gloucestershire) unlimited photos per assignment no payment for archive reproducton | _Assoc | 2006 | ![]() |
45.00 | GR | XXXX |
The Wharf day | _TMG | 2006 | ![]() |
100.00 | GR | XX |
Weekly News 50mm square | 2002 | ![]() |
40.00 | |||
Welwyn and Hatfield Times day rate - but will fit as many as 12 jobs into the day and allow no download time. free re-use in any Archant publication | _ECN | 2004 | ![]() |
85.00 | GR | XX |
Western Daily Press picture on spec 1st use - reuse fee lower depending on size; no expenses | _Assoc | 2007 | ![]() |
40.00 | X | |
Western Daily Press single job unlimited reuse within Bristol papers; expenses 46p per mile, 50p per pic wired on location; no tax deductions | _Assoc | 2007 | ![]() |
40.00 | XXX | |
Western Daily Press day shift unlimited reuse within Bristol papers; expenses 46p per mile, 50p per pic wired on location; no tax deductions | _Assoc | 2007 | ![]() |
95.00 | XX | |
Western Daily Press per day FBS+mileage+wire fee | _Assoc | 2004 | ![]() |
85.00 | GR | |
Western Gazette pic any page no expenses or mileage or anything else | _Assoc | 2004 | ![]() |
13.00 | XXXX | |
Western Mail day | _TMG | 2018 | ![]() |
150.00 | ||
Western Mail booking minimum | _TMG | 2018 | ![]() |
75.00 | ||
Western Mail job took 30 mins to do all in FBS | _TMG | 2013 | ![]() |
75.00 | GR | |
Wiltshire Gazette and Herald per day, plus mileage at 40p unlimited use | _NQ | 2006 | ![]() |
70.00 | GR | XXXX |
Worcester News day rate + mileage | _Gannett | 2006 | ![]() |
100.00 | X | |
Yorkshire Post use of two pictures for front page story | _INM | 2003 | ![]() |
75.00 | XX | |
Archant (local paper) 3 for print, 1 online | _ECN | 2011 | ![]() |
190.00 | ||
Archant newspaper 3 photos for print, 1 online | _ECN | 2010 | ![]() |
190.00 | ||
Capital Group newspapers 2 quarter page sports pix | 1993 | ![]() |
45.00 | |||
Dimbleby Newspaper Group day | 1998 | ![]() |
23.00 | XXX | ||
Dimbleby Newspaper Group photo+report | 1996 | ![]() |
65.00 | X | ||
Herald News group pic | 1995 | ![]() |
60.00 | |||
ITV 1 archive photo for daytime TV - | _ITV | 2018 | ![]() |
200.00 | ||
Johnston Press papers in NE England so-called half day - mileage not paid | _Johnsto | 2018 | ![]() |
50.00 | XXX | |
Johnston Press papers in NE England so-called half day | _Johnsto | 2018 | ![]() |
50.00 | XXX | |
Johnston Press papers in NE England day (though shifts are few and far between) | _Johnsto | 2018 | ![]() |
100.00 | XX | |
Local newspaper event photographing, second pic | 2014 | ![]() |
2.50 | XXXX | ||
Local newspaper event photographing, first pic | 2014 | ![]() |
8.00 | XXXX | ||
Morton newspapers half day (no expenses paid) | _Johnsto | 2014 | ![]() |
35.00 | GR | XXX |
Morton newspapers day (no expenses paid) | _Johnsto | 2014 | ![]() |
70.00 | GR | X |
Morton newspapers half day (no expenses paid) | _Johnsto | 2014 | ![]() |
35.00 | GR | XXX |
Morton newspapers single job (no expenses paid) | _Johnsto | 2014 | ![]() |
12.00 | GR | XXXX |
Morton newspapers single job (no expenses paid) | _Johnsto | 2014 | ![]() |
12.00 | GR | XXXX |
Morton newspapers day (no expenses paid) | _Johnsto | 2014 | ![]() |
70.00 | GR | X |
Newsflare (for London TV) 30 seconds video - | 2018 | ![]() |
50.00 | XXX | ||
NewsQuest local paper day | _NQ | 2007 | ![]() |
120.00 | ||
Regional newspapers per pic | 1998 | ![]() |
30.00 | |||
Regional paper, midlands of England photo day (4+ jobs, 1-3 pics per job) | _Johnsto | 2013 | ![]() |
80.00 | XXX | |
S E London Mercury group each | 1994 | ![]() |
15.00 | |||
Scotland Today (regional news) 6-second use of still image on-air and embedded in web movie: subsequent unauthorised 12-second use on-air, in embedded web video and web still. Billed and settled in full with no deductions. SMG claimed initial payment was normally considered "buy-out", | _SMG | 2007 | ![]() |
225.00 | ||
Sheffield Newspapers 8-hour day (sometimes 1 maybe 2 jobs, other times 4 or 5 jobs) mileage paid at 45p per mile | _Johnsto | 2013 | ![]() |
90.00 | GR | X |
Sheffield Newspapers photo day, 45p per mile use across group | _Johnsto | 2013 | ![]() |
85.00 | GR | XX |
Small (fledgling) regional weekly Supporting article | 2004 | ![]() |
2.00 | XXXX | ||
Tindle newspapers photography day, 34p per mile, no other expenses | _Tindle | 2013 | ![]() |
50.00 | GR | XXX |
Trinity Mirror paper day | _TMG | 2006 | ![]() |
100.00 | X | |
Weekly Local Newspaper (various editions in Hants/Surrey) day, prod/exes 0.34p per mile for petrol (plus they sell pics to public and no commission to photographer!) | _Tindle | 2015 | ![]() |
50.00 | GR | XXX |
Key to the rates, by column: |
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1 Publication / Programme, any details of work and licence | ||||||
2 Owner at the time the rate was reported, where known | Group | |||||
3 The year in which the rate was reported | Year |
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4 Currency: either ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() |
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5 Amount paid (total of basic licence and extra licences for web use, database resale...) | Amount |
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7 "Going Rate" according to experienced NUJ members - do try to better it: | GR |
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or Minimum rate set out in NUJ House Agreement: | HA |
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8 Underpaid, in the fallible opinion of the Freelance editor: | ![]() | 50.00 | X |
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or Just sometimes we're pleasantly surprised: | ![]() | 1500.00 | O |
Other rates:
Type of work: | In the "sector": (click or tap below!) | ||||||
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Words, per 1000 | News | Local | Mag | online | Book | PR | Other |
Words, other | News | Local | Mag | online | Book | PR | Other |
Photography | News | Local | Mag | online | Book | PR | Other |
Broadcasting | News | Local | Other including podcasting | ||||
Shifts | News | Local | Mag | online | Book | PR | Other |
Other: | Cartoons | Crosswords | Illustration | Punditry | Retainer | Teaching | Tip-off | Translation | ||||||
Recently reported rates | all from the past few months |



