This likely is accurate but we would need to know are they talking about increases in average salaries?  A lot of smaller US stations no longer have news or news departments so these low income news jobs no longer exist.  This automatically would bring up the average.  Also many reporters and news personnel are now responsible for more outlets in a companies chain of stations.  So they could have had a reasonable increase in pay since their workload has increased running more newsrooms.

I don't get the fairly substantial gap between commercial and non commercial radio.  Does NPR pay really well?

Here in Canada, CBC tends to pay the average employee more than the private sector. The exception would be  morning and afternoon drive talent in major markets and in upper management, again in major and some medium markets.   Private broadcasters usually pay more for these positions.

So I don't really understand why non commercial radio in the US seems to be paying quite a bit better than private radio according to RTDNA.

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