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What Do Writers Really Earn?
This brand new survey is designed to give writing professionals more information about what their peers are earning for different types of work at different levels of experience.
How our Surveys Work
Our methodology has always been to allow the public to search all the data we collect and draw their own conclusions. That is because "the devil is in the details". How many books an author has published previously, their genre and subgenre, the print run size and earn out of previously published books and whether or not the author is agented all affect the advances an author can command. We display these kinds of details with every advance or payment reported so that visitors to our surveys can make a more accurate estimation of their own worth.
We've pursued this strategy with our computer compensation surveys since 1995. The data from those surveys are now cited routinely by media like The New York Times, CNN.com, Monster.com and the Gartner Group and is used by hundreds of employer HR departments. It is our hope that if we build up a critical mass of data about author compensation, we can also exert a positive force on the direction of the advances and payment that authors receive.
Who Should Participate?
If you have been paid for publishing a book, e-book, magazine article, or web page content in the past five years we would like to hear from you.
How to Report Your Data
To participate, please fill in the fields below. If you can't remember an exact number or date, an approximation is fine. When you submit your data if you include an email address, you will be assigned a tracking number. Save this number. You can use it to notify us if your data needs to be modified or deleted.
Our Privacy Pledge
All data will be displayed anonymously. You may, optionally, include an email address. As has been our site policy since we began our surveys in 1995, all email data will be held strictly confidential. We DO NOT release this information to anyone, nor do we spam.We use this data if we need to contact you when there is a question about the data you have submitted. Survey management reserves the right to delete any data that appears to be a prank posting or which looks abnormal but cannot be verified via the submitter's email address. This enables us to keep our data hones.
Also, please note that the data in the "comments" field is read by survey management but does not appear in the posted survey.
CLICK HERE for the Survey Form
CLICK HERE to View the Authors Compensation Survey Data
