Seems there’s a couple of ABC jobs up for grabs at the moment. I wonder which one MD Mark Scott considers more important in the brave new world of “continuous news”? Here’s the first ad for a gig in the Harbour City.
Mail Room Supervisor, Business Services, Ultimo
(Administrative/Professional, Band 5, Schedule A)
$59,784 – $64,063
Then there’s this appointment (internal only) in Brisbane:
Bi Media Journalist, News, Brisbane
(Program Maker, Band 3, Schedule B)
$48,968 – $53,413
It appears Aunty reckons taxpayer dollars are better spent ensuring Kerry O’Brien’s fan mail arrives than creating the content O’Brien reports on. Crikey understands a flurry of outraged internal emails have been doing the rounds complaining about the ads this week. ABC insiders report that a “Bi Media Journo” on Schedule B has a higher rate of pay for the same band, meaning you get six weeks annual leave — but only because you’re forced to work public holidays
As far as writing pieces for the ABC Drum and Unleashed, this writer with many published articles under his belt gets $150.- per piece of about a 1000 finely chisseled words.
Still, people are queuing for the privilige. It helps pay for some chaff, a bottle of Shiraz and I still enjoy the fruits of love.
I am not sure if the ABC is more or less stingy with their freelance writers than others but in super alone I managed to save a whopping $ 64- .
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Andy, mate, ya gotta take it up with the union. It’s all in the award, ya know. 🙂
Mind you, I would point out that the mail room job has staff supervision responsibilities. Surely that extra grief justifies the higher pay scale?
The Ultimo Mailroom job will also feature the additional perk of unregistered packages, which rarely reach recipients here. It’s notorious.