How do you stack up against Statistics Canada’s poverty line of $20,778?
My first job in journalism paid $700 a month. We worked on manual typewriters in a cinder-block newsroom. There was no overtime pay or dental plan.
The game "What I Used To Make" is popular wherever reporters gather. Reminiscences of hardship are a treasured pastime for journalists big and small. George Bernard Shaw, on winning the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, recalled as a struggling newspaperman in 1885 his net income was $5.46.
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