Magazine Beauty Editor Salary
As a beauty editor, you inspire, inform and entertain readers on the world of beauty. You are increasingly being required to adapt your content to the Web for online magazines, newspapers and websites that require multimedia software and interactive Web technologies that blend text, graphics and sound, according to the U.S.Bureau of Labor Statistics. You review, rewrite and edit the work of other writers and verify facts, dates and statistics.
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National Editor Salaries
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Beauty editors must know how to present ideas on beauty. Beauty editors usually begin as beauty writers. Employment opportunities for editors nationally are anticipated to increase by 8 percent through 2018, according to the BLS. The average national salary for an editor was $28.53 hourly and $59,340 annually, as of 2010, according to the BLS. Editors in the top 10 percent earned an average hourly wage of $46.54 and an average annual salary of $96,800. Those individuals working in the 25th to 75th percentile earned between $18.26 and $34.44 hourly and between $37,980 and $71,640 annually. Editors in the bottom 10 percent earned an hourly wage of $13.89 and an annual salary of $28,880.
Salaries by Company
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Readers look at beauty magazines for fresh ideas on fashion and beauty. As of the 2008-to-2011 period, beauty editors at Sephora USA earned between $60,000 and $65,000 annually, according to Glassdoor.com. Beauty editors working at Juli B earned between $48,000 and $52,000 annually.
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Top Salaries by Location
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Beauty editors are editors first and beauty experts second. (*See Reference 3*) Due to the Internet, location is not as much of a determining factor in the salaries of beauty editors, who are increasingly migrating to the Web, according to the BLS. However, beauty editors found the greatest number of jobs and also the highest pay in New York, as of 2010, according to the BLS. Beauty editors in New York earned an average hourly wage of $35.91 and an average annual salary of $74,690. The District of Columbia was the second best paying area for beauty editors, who earned an average of $34.38 hourly and $71,510 annually. Beauty editors in Florida earned $32.18 hourly and $67,970 annually.
Salaries by Experience
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Beauty editors impart information about beauty products. Top beauty editors can command six-figure incomes, according to Find A Beauty School, which notes that mid-range beauty editor salaries range between $40,000 and $50,000, as of 2008. As of 2011, entry level beauty editor job salaries ranged between $30,000 and $40,000, according to FashionSchools. Experienced beauty editors earned between $40,000 and $60,000. Top beauty editors earned between $70,000 and $100,000, according to FashionSchools.
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