Salary for Journalists in Mexico Among the 5 Lowest in the Country, Survey Finds Janelle Matous - Journalism in the Americas Blog
go to original April 14, 2014

Journalism is still one of the lowest salaried jobs in Mexico, according to data from the 2013 Mexican National Occupation and Employment Survey.

The Mexican Institute for Competivity compared salary information collected by the Statistics and Geography National Institute (INEGI) last year and found that journalism was the fifth worst paid occupation in the country. In 2013 the median salary of a journalist was 7,973 Mexican pesos per month, or about $610.

The study is conducted quarterly using a sample of the population in rotating cycles. The four occupations below journalism were general requirements teacher (about $603 a month), basic courses teacher (about $553), social worker ($537) and fine arts (468).

Salaries for Mexican journalists have remained consistently low through the last several years of heightened violence against journalists. According to a survey from the National Commission on Minimum Wage in 2012, the minimum wage for a print journalist was 176 pesos a day, or $13.

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