NUJ Rate for the Job: Photography / mags

Rates archived as at 2025-07-09

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 / mags Photography whose primary use was in a magazine. These are archived rates. The current rates are here.
Tell us what you've been paid for Photography / mags		Freelance Fees Guide
Publication / Programme - details & terms	Group	Year		Total paid	GR	XXXX
100% Biker photos and words for 3-page colour feature FBS	_Jazz	2013		480.00		X
100% Biker 4 page photo spread of 2-day event with 11 pix + words by others: £45 per page split between photographer & writer. First European publishing rights, online digital magazine, website & promotional material wanted (for more payment). FBS agreed.	_Jazz	2009		90.00		XX
AirForces Monthly Inside pages, up to a maximum of £80 per page (regardless of the number of images used on that page).		2011		20.00		XXXX
Allegra stock half-page	_Springr	2000		170.00
Allegra (Axel Springer) stock pic half page		1999		170.00		O
Amateur Photographer page	_IPC	1992		150.00
Argentina day ($230)		1996		148.00
Ariel (BBC) day	_BBC	2008		160.00
Arise (Velo Agency) picture research day. Took 3 months and NUJ intervention to get paid...		2009		125.00	GR
Athletics Weekly single photo published	_Descart	2009		15.00	GR	XXX
Athletics Weekly 1 photo repro rate	_Descart	2004		25.00		XXXX
Attitude half day shoot , prod/exes 0		2010		225.00	GR	X
Autosport small pic	_HM	1995		30.00
Autosport pic	_HM	1995		150.00
Bella day	_Bauer	1994		200.00
Bella half-day	_Bauer	1992		100.00
Best small pic drop in single use, stock image	_Hearst	2013		50.00	GR
Best half-day+exes	_GJ	1994		120.00
BETA news pic		2006		150.00
Big Issue 1/8 page single use	_BI	2004		80.00
Big Issue half day, 1/3 page photo FBS	_BI	2004		120.00
Big Issue use of 5 pix	_BI	1998		120.00		X
Big Issue Scotland; per agreement, each	_BI	1997		30.00	HA
Big Issue South-West stock photo	_BI	2002		35.00
Bikesport News freelance submission price per image regardless of size - you have to find the image has been used as they don't tell you		2007		10.00	GR	XXXX
Bikesport News 4 photos used 1/8 page FBS		2004		40.00		X
Bikesport News 4 photos used 1/8 page FBS		2004		40.00		X
Bizarre Magazine one pic FBS	_Dennis	2003		600.00		O
Bizarre single image, DPS FBS	_Dennis	2006		600.00		O
BMT Journal 1 stock photo FBS	_TU	2002		90.00
Boyz (PP & B Ltd) one-off fee for job up to eight images in magazine, on website and as thumbnails in future publications; extra for full-size re-use		2004		90.00	GR	XXXX
Broadcast pic		1995		30.00
Building Worker (UCATT) day	_TU	2004		400.00
Building Worker (UCATT trade union) eighth-page pic FBS	_TU	2001		60.00
Business 5/50 cover photo FBS		2006		50.00		XXXX
Business a.m. second use of pic - up to four columns		2001		40.00	HA
Business a.m second use of pic - five or six columns		2001		60.00	HA
Business a.m day		2001		140.00	HA
CA Magazine half day		2009		270.00
CA half day		2008		250.00
Chronicle of Higher Education half page stock photo - plus $20 for contact sheet First American Serial rights $388		2005		194.00
Classic Rock one pic (small)	_Highbur	2005		50.00
Collect it commissions for article illustration FBS	_Essent	2005		150.00		XXX
Community Care Photos and 1000-word report	_RBI	2011		300.00		XX
Community Care half day FBS + expenses/materials	_RBI	2002		130.00		O
Community Care half-day	_RBI	1997		120.00
Community Care cover commission+exes	_RBI	1994		250.00
Community Care half-day	_RBI	1992		90.00
Conde Nast Traveller double page FBS	_CondN	2006		400.00	GR
Construction News front page stock photo FBS	_EMAP	2006		100.00
Construction News stock photo FBS	_EMAP	2006		75.00
Construction News stock photo for front page FBS	_EMAP	2005		100.00
Construction News stock photo	_EMAP	2004		75.00
Construction News 1 pic FBS	_EMAP	2003		75.00
Construction News use of pic	_EMAP	2002		70.00
Cosmopolitan per day	_NatMag	1997		350.00
Cosmopolitan day	_NatMag	1996		300.00
Country Life day, exes £100-200 , all rights (negotiable)	_AOL	2012		500.00	GR
Country Life day, shooting double-page; all rights; £50 exes	_IPC	2002		300.00
Country Smallholding small reproduction	_ECN	2003		10.00		XXXX
Country (A+D Media) per pic FBS		2003		25.00
Creative Review half day	_Centaur	2008		150.00
Crops half day commission FBS	_RBI	2004		70.00	XX
Cumbrian Life day - 8 hours, one feature and 3 fillers, prod/exes 40p per mile	_Cumbria	2010		120.00	GR	XX
Current Biology stock photo +50% for simultaneous web publication for 2 weeks		2010		75.00
Custom Car 3-page feature, 1000 words plus 8 pics, no exes	_Kelsey	2013		300.00	GR	X
Dance Express model shoot, half day		1998		200.00
dazed and confused full page portrait upfront		2007		50.00		XXX
Dazed+Confused (no exes)		2000		0.00		XXX
Dazed+Confused commission		1999		0.00		X
Dentist colour pic (like extracting...)		1998		10.00		XXXX
Digital Camera DPS stock pic FBS + foreign editions	_Future	2006		560.00		O
Direct (GMB union journal) half-day	_TU	1995		125.00
Drapers pic	_EMAP	2006		100.00
Eastern Eye day		1994		25.00		XXXX
Eastern Eye pic		1994		25.00
Echo de Paris pic		1994		50.00
Economist day	_Pearson	1996		290.00
Elle pic commission	_Hach	1998		200.00
Environmental Health Guide (Charter of Environmental Health) 1 stock photo		2004		90.00
Environmental Health News half day - plus £20 digital processing FBS	_Chadw	2007		150.00
Esquire 1 week photo shoot FBS	_NatMag	2000		2200.00
Estates Gazette 1 photo	_RBI	2007		50.00
Estates Gazette shoot+exes	_RBI	1998		125.00
Euro under 26 pix		1996		50.00
Euro under 26 job		1996		85.00
European 0.25 page B+W	_BarcB	1993		65.00
Eventing 1 photo (2nd printed and following) FBS, single use, copyright retained by photog, exes?	_IPC	2004		20.00		XX
Eventing 1 photo (1st printed) FBS	_IPC	2004		30.00		XX
F1 Racing photos (4 pages) , terms 1 month international use	_HM	2009		450.00
Fairtrade photos, videos, interviews - details illegible!		2012		550.00
Farmers Guardian coverage of a social event FBS		2005		140.00		XX
Farmers' Weekly day+exes	_RBI	1997		170.00
Farmers' Weekly day+exes	_RBI	1996		120.00
Faster EXE pic		1995		25.00		X
Faster EXE (Computers) job		1995		25.00		XXX
FHM half day	_EMAP	2005		200.00
Focus half day shoot FBS		2003		150.00
Four Two Four (?=FourFourTwo) day	_HM	1996		275.00
Frank travel pix page, no exes!	_EMAP	2000		100.00		XX
Frank page (no exes)	_EMAP	1999		100.00		X
Freedom half-day (circ. 1000)		1997		25.00
Freelance front page B/W pic - 'a great feeling of self-worth' +	_TU	2001		0.00
Gente (Argentina) day		1998		200.00
Geo (Germany) day	_GJ	1998		130.00
Geographical 6-8 pics		2009		400.00
Geographical per page		1997		100.00
GMB direct half day	_TU	2000		130.00	GR
GMB direct half-day	_TU	1993		125.00
GMB direct day	_TU	1993		250.00
GMB direct day	_TU	1993		125.00
Golf Monthly day rate 0.45p mileage, full subsistence, general expenses, parking, etc	_IPC	2006		600.00	GR	XX
Good Housekeeping day	_NatMag	2002		450.00
Good Housekeeping photos per day in studio	_NatMag	2001		550.00	GR
GP (General Practitioner) half day	_HM	1998		85.00
GP (General Practitioner) half-day	_HM	1996		85.00
GP (General Practitioner) half-day+35p/mile	_HM	1994		90.00
GP (General Practitioner) half-day+exes	_HM	1994		80.00
GP (General Practitioner) half-day	_HM	1992		80.00
Grazia per pic one time print licence for one issue - FBS	_EMAP	2007		300.00
Grazia two pics 1/4 page and 1/8 FBS	_EMAP	2006		175.00
Guitarist Acoustic one pic		2005		120.00
H+E Naturist per pic		2008		80.00	GR
HA Weekly half-day		1996		95.00
Health Visitors' Weekly photo		1996		65.00
Hello! photos	_Hola	2003		300.00
Hello! 0.167 col	_Hola	1998		100.00
Hello! (B+W)	_Hola	1993		80.00
Hello! (day, plus 1000 words)	_Hola	1993		2500.00
Hello! (5 photos, colour, 2pp spread)	_Hola	1993		800.00
Hello! (day, plus 1000 words)	_Hola	1993		3000.00
Hello! colour page	_Hola	1992		150.00		XXX
Hello food photography, 6 images	_NS	2008		450.00		O
Heritage Magazine (Romsey Publishing) repro fee First World		2005		20.00		XXXX
Horse + Hound photo 2 day rate FBS	_IPC	2004		220.00		X
Horse +; Hound 1 photo 1/4 page rate FBS	_IPC	2004		60.00
Horse +; Hound day rate FBS	_IPC	2004		135.00
Housing Today 1 stock photo, 1/3 page FBS	_Builder	2004		70.00
Huck 1 photo		2007		100.00		X
ID page, commissioned or not, no exes for the non-nepotistic		2000		50.00		XX
Independent On Sunday New Review single editorial portrait	_Lebedev	2012		250.00		X
Index on Censorship pic		1997		40.00
Inside Housing 1 stock pic FBS	_TMG	2004		60.00
Inside Housing 1 stock photo FBS	_Builder	2004		60.00
Inside Housing 1 stock photo	_TMG	2003		60.00		X
Inside Housing 1 stock shot FBS	_TMG	2003		60.00
International Boat Industry per pic	_IPC	1997		80.00
Investors' Chronicle pic	_Pearson	1993		45.00
Investors' Chronicle 0.25 page	_Pearson	1992		35.00
Investors' Chronicle 1/4 page	_Pearson	1992		45.00
Jane (New York) with exes US$ 350		2000		222.00
Jane (New York) portrait session, with exes ($350)		1999		218.75
Jazzwise stock photograph FBS		2013		25.00		X
Jewish Chronicle Photos, all rights, no exes		2011		35.00		XXX
Jewish Chronicle per pic		2001		60.00
Jewish News photogallery - 30 pix		2004		50.00		XXXX
Jewish News stock photo		2004		40.00		X
Karting photographs - all sizes		2007		6.00	GR	XXXX
Labour Research 1/2 page	_TU	2007		100.00
Labour Research stock pic first use		2000		60.00
LBS (=? London Borough of Sutton) 10 pix	_HMG	2003		550.00		O
Living Marxism per job+exes		1997		60.00
Loaded DJ shot	_IPC	1996		100.00
Local Authority day		2002		180.00
Local Rider single use of stock image, size unknown		2014		5.00		XXXX
London Planner stock pix to cover		2000		75.00
London Planner stock pic inside		2000		35.00
Management Today half-day	_HM	1997		150.00
Manchester United Football per day FBS incl exes	_Future	2000		270.00
Middle East (I C Pubs) photo		2002		15.00		XX
Middle East 4 pix+caption		1997		75.00		X
Midweek (2nd use)	_INM	1995		45.00
Mini magazine stock pic	_Future	2013		25.00
Mojo cover plus 4/5 cover story pix all rights on pictures used	_Bauer	2012		2000.00	GR
Mojo "The Mojo Interview" - full-page portrait plus a couple of other pix all rights on pictures used	_Bauer	2012		800.00	GR
Money Marketing 5 prints		1994		150.00
More pic	_EMAP	1993		300.00
Motor Boat Month pic		2004		40.00
Mountain Bike UK images for feature	_Future	2011		400.00
Mountain Biker colour on inside page	_IPC	1992		85.00
Mountain Biker B+W on contents page	_IPC	1992		80.00
Mountain Biker colour on contents page	_IPC	1992		120.00
Mountain Biker colour cover	_IPC	1992		100.00
Mountain Biker B+W on inside page	_IPC	1992		53.00
Museums Journal 1 photo FBS		2008		80.00
My Weekly food photography, 12 images	_DCT	2008		600.00		O
N8 (Angel Magazines) pic		2006		120.00
National Geographic Traveler 1/4 page photo (sourced via Flickr) magazine and online version	_NatGeo	2012		275.00
National Geographic 7 pictures	_NatGeo	2011		3000.00
Nature (Macmillan) pic	_Holtzb	1994		60.00
New African B+W repro		1997		25.00		XXX
New Internationalist one pic		2004		50.00		X
New Internationalist 1 photo one use		2003		50.00
New Scientist pic	_RBI	1994		60.00		X
New Times one pic		1999		25.00		X
Newsweek per day with exes		2000		350.00		O
NME 1/4 page photo	_IPC	2013		25.00		XXX
Non League Paper football assignments (they have dropped their rate this season...)		2003		110.00		X
Non-League Paper Match coverage + ISDN after match - called to say they aim to increase to £200		2001		100.00		X
Nursing Standard assignment	_TU	2004		160.00
Nursing Standard half-day (processed film 15, 25p/mile)	_TU	1996		95.00
Nursing Standard day	_TU	1993		130.00
Nursing Times half-day first print use only	_EMAP	2003		150.00	GR
Nursing Times half-day first print use only	_EMAP	2003		150.00	GR
Nursing Times per day FBS	_EMAP	2000		250.00
Nursing Times half day	_EMAP	2000		120.00	GR
Nursing Times Single Pic reqested from stock single 1/2 page use	_EMAP	2000		100.00
Nursing Times day	_EMAP	1997		200.00
Nursing Times half-day	_EMAP	1996		90.00
Nursing Times day	_EMAP	1996		180.00
OK! per photograph	_NS	2011		50.00		XX
OK submitted 10-12 photos, 2 hours' evening work	_NS	2009		250.00
OK pic	_NS	1996		50.00
OK four pix	_NS	1996		100.00
Open Mind journal half-day		1993		90.00
Pink Paper (PP & B Ltd) one off fee for job all rights		2004		75.00	GR	XXXX
Planet 1 stock pic		2005		0.00		XXXX
Post Update day		1996		200.00
Post Update 2 hours		1996		80.00
Pregnancy step-by-step pix	_Highbur	2001		50.00		X
Premier Guitar full page photo, print and digital, plus use on Facebook 6-month exclusive rights re: guitar specialist magazines, non-exclusive elsewhere		2013		100.00
Press Gazette		2012		75.00		XX
Press Gazette stock photo	_Quantum	2004		60.00
Private Equity International 1.5-hour job plus retouching plus transmission	_IPC	2013		280.00
Pulse half-day+29p/mile	_MF	1994		120.00
Pulse half-day	_MF	1992		90.00
Punch half day		1998		100.00
Rail per day	_EMAP	2002		125.00		X
Real Magazine 1 hour photo shoot		2007		150.00	GR
Recycle print+design 1 hour		1994		65.00
Red Pepper stock pic		2004		35.00		XX
Red Pepper one pic		2004		30.00		XX
Red Pepper 1 pic FBS		2003		35.00
Red Pepper 1 stock photo		2003		50.00
Red Pepper 1 pic FBS		2002		50.00
Reveal photo job 1 hour , mileage @ 40p pm = £24 offered all rights wanted: member didn't sign	_Hearst	2013		250.00	GR
RMT News half-day photo assignment FBS + web use	_TU	2006		190.00
Rock Sound full page (more than one pic)		2011		70.00		XXXX
Rock Sound full page		2011		70.00		XX
Rock Sound quarter page		2011		30.00		XX
Rock Sound half page		2011		40.00		XX
Rock Sound double-page spread/poster		2011		100.00		XX
Rolling Stone on line via photoshot/retna/getty images stock / archival image	_Getty	2013		8.90		XXX
Roof per day, B+W		1998		155.00
Running fitness single photo published	_Descart	2009		25.00	GR	XX
S.I.D Magazine per photo		2008		75.00
Safeway Magazine photos per day Bought outright		2001		600.00	GR
Saga Magazine half day FBS + expenses/materials		2002		250.00		O
Saga Magazine feature (a day's work) FBS		2012		1000.00		O
Scene headshots		1995		50.00
Scene day of 8		1995		400.00
Scuba World a 1200 word feature complete with pictures -- '20,000 leagues under the going rate'		1994		90.00
Searchlight front cover photo FBS		2004		100.00
Shooting Times front cover on Christmas edition	_IPC	2009		70.00		XXX
Soc. Work (?) photo		2002		35.00
Solidarity Action 2 pix		1999		60.00
Songlines photograph + blog		2011		150.00
Sounding stock photo for cover		2006		230.00
Sport Free Attitude stock sale, single shot non-exclusive print edition	_Score	2004		60.00		XXX
Stage pic		1998		70.00
TAB half-day		1992		100.00
Televisual full page bleed image - exes on top	_Centaur	2006		180.00
Televisual full page pic FBS	_Centaur	2005		180.00
The Agility Voice event coverage, 2 days FBS		2005		200.00		XXX
The Ecologist 1/4 page photo		2005		50.00		X
The English Garden feature FBS	_ECN	2012		350.00	GR
The Face page (commissioned, but use fee only for the non-famous)	_EMAP	2000		120.00
The Face quarter page	_EMAP	2000		60.00
The Face page	_EMAP	1999		120.00
The Face quarter page	_EMAP	1999		60.00
The Networker (NGO magazine) 1 stock photo		2003		50.00		X
The Socialist set of 3		2001		30.00		XXX
Time for Business business portraits of one subject, prod/exes £380.00 all-inclusive print and screen use for open ended time use		2013		100.00	GR	XX
Time Out portrait/single job	_TOut	2003		150.00
Time Out restaurants	_TOut	2003		50.00		X
Time Out per restaurant	_TOut	1998		50.00
Times Educational Supplement Scotland (TESS) per job ~4 hours total two years' usage in mag, forever on website, fee reflects travel distance, no further exes	_TSL	2013		270.00	GR
Times Educational Supplement Scotland (TESS) reproduction fee, any size single use	_TSL	2013		50.00	GR	X
Times Educational Supplement use of unsolicited photo from Uganda	_TSL	2006		25.00		X
Times Educational Supplement day	_NI	1996		160.00
Times Higher Education Supplement 1/4 page stock photo FBS	_NI	2004		100.00
Times Higher Education Supplement quarter page	_NI	2003		100.00
Times Higher Education Supplement per pic	_NI	1997		150.00
Times Higher Education Supplement half-day	_NI	1992		75.00
Times Saturday Magazine, 'contacts' one use dps one pic and contact FBS	_NI	2004		400.00	GR
TNT full page image		2005		90.00		X
TNT 2-page spread		2003		200.00
Top Gear 150 words and a half-page colour pic	_BBC	1994		200.00
Trendi day		1998		200.00
Tribune six photos		2001		180.00
Truck+Driver one-page pic plus a few hundred words of text	_RBI	1994		200.00
Truck+Driver one-page pic plus a few hundred words of text	_RBI	1994		300.00
TUC magazine 4 photos	_TU	2008		1600.00		O
TUC magazine 2-hour portrait job	_TU	2008		150.00
Universe day		1997		125.00
Universe any job all-in		1996		65.00
Venue stock images for features prepared to go with one time non-exclusive licence, but not to pay!		2006		0.00		XXXX
Vogue two photos	_CondN	2006		500.00
Wanderlust third of page illustrated travel article		2006		180.00
watercraft Photos for feature FBS		2002		300.00
Welfare State Action pic		1999		30.00
Welfare State Action one pic		1999		30.00
West Africa day		1998		100.00		X
Which? portrait job , prod/exes travel at 41p pm , terms 3 month licence		2009		150.00
Wild About Animals single column pic+caption		1994		100.00
Wild About Animals pic+caption story		1994		100.00
Women's Realm fashion day	_IPC	1998		450.00
Women's Realm day	_IPC	1998		150.00
Workers' Liberty		1999		30.00
Workers' Power five pix		1999		55.00		XXX
Workers' Power five photos		1999		55.00		XX
World's Children per pic		1997		60.00
Young People Now Front cover feature, one day's work no expenses; processing and film to be paid but if using digital some discrepancy over how much extra to pay. Turned down the job because too badly paid. After turning down job, editor said "well you won't be getting an	_HM	2003		150.00		XX
Yours photos short portrait job London FBS	_EMAP	2007		300.00	GR	O
BBC Sky at Night photos of Sir Patrick Moore + Brian May, 1 day licences not discussed, but used, not too happy	_Origin	2007		450.00		X
Camera Press sale to Polish magazine		2005		10.00		XX
City of London archive stock photo Cat. 2a: Scholarly and/or non profit-making publications, BW	_HMG	2013		15.18
City of London archive stock photo Cat. 2a: Scholarly and/or non profit-making publications, colour	_HMG	2013		29.84
Emap Motorcycle News Photos for MCN extra for MCN website	_EMAP	2000		180.00
Future Publishing page	_Future	1994		105.00
Gardening title photo job, no exes FBS	_IPC	2013		500.00	GR
Haymarket publications day+exes	_HM	1995		100.00
Inside Communications stock photo FBS	_TMG	2006		70.00
Inside Communications half-day	_TMG	1992		85.00
MacMillan page	_EMAP	1992		120.00
MacMillan 0.25 page	_EMAP	1992		45.00
Newsletter (Prospect trade union) quarter page photo	_TU	2008		70.00
PHOTOshoot 3 hours		2007		160.00
Reed day	_RBI	1998		200.00
Trade magazine one image FBS		2008		45.00
TRVL app per pic - 40 per piece photographer retains copyright		2012		15.00
trvl.com photos, each , for use on iPad platform		2012		15.00	GR
UCATT half day photography	_TU	2002		280.00
Unison Focus full page photo (lost first invoice, paid promptly on second!)	_TU	2002		180.00
~various sports mags page		1994		60.00
Key to the rates, by column:
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
4 Currency: either or or (US)
5 Amount paid (total of basic licence and extra licences for web use, database resale...)				Amount
7 "Going Rate" according to experienced NUJ members - do try to better it:					GR
or Minimum rate set out in NUJ House Agreement:					HA
8 Underpaid, in the fallible opinion of the Freelance editor:				50.00		X
or Just sometimes we're pleasantly surprised:				1500.00		O

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