Time Out slammed for ‘disgrace’ of a job ad for part time editor paying just over $30,000
City guide website Time Out has attracted the ire of the industry’s union, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), over a job ad seeking an arts and culture editor to work three days a week on a salary of just above $30,000. The publication told Mumbrella it takes allegations of underpayment very seriously, but wishes the union reached out “before making assumptions”.
The ad asks for an “experienced and tenacious” editor who already has an “extensive network of contacts” and is “confident writing alongside and editing the work of some of Australia’s finest arts journalists and critics”. But the salary matches up to an Award classification designed for employees who have completed a cadetship but are still “gaining experience”, working under “broad supervision”, and just beginning to exercise “independent initiative” and “more advanced skills”.
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MEAA’s media federal president Marcus Strom took to Twitter to call the posting, which originally advertised a salary of $30,000, a “disgrace”, and said the salary doesn’t reflect the seniority and responsibility of the position.
