Starting salary ranges at a few Texas papers

I guess I understand why employers don't list a salary range with a job opening, but I sure like it when they do. It seems straightforward. I've been doing surveys of Texas print journalism job openings throughout 2007, and here are some compiled results. Only a very few employers chose to place the pay range in the ad, of course, and thus these results will only tell you so much -- mostly, they tell you what you can expect to get paid in an entry-level job at a small Texas newspaper, or a management job at a tiny Texas newspaper (which can involve being the reporter/photographer/designer, anyway).

Once you get up to the mid-sized and larger newspapers, everybody starts clamming up about their pay ranges, even for entry-level jobs. So this will NOT tell you what to expect at those papers. But it still may be of use, and so I present it -- organized by rounded-up circulation size with the newspapers' names stripped off, because I see no need to punish them for being honest.

Management positions
(40,000 circ) Desk supervisor for Web and print, $50,000 to $60,000
(10,000 circ) News editor, $30,000 to $35,000
(5,000 circ) Managing editor, $40,000 to $45,000
(4,000 circ) News editor, $35,000-$40,000
(3,500 circ) Managing editor, $20,000-$25,000
Biweekly political journal CEO/executive publisher, $60,000-$75,000
Magazine managing editor, $45,000-$50,000
Magazine photo editor, $40,000-$45,000

Copy editor/page designer
(50,000 circ) $25,000 to $30,000
(23,400 circ) copy editor, $20,000-$25,000; page designer, $15,000-$20,000
(8,200 circ) $25,000 to $30,000

Reporter
(10,500 circ) $20,000-$25,000
(10,000 circ) reporter/photographer/paginator, $25,000-$30,000
(8,200 circ) $20,000-$25,000
(6,200 circ) $25,000-$30,000
(3,500 circ) $20,000-$25,000
(5,000 circ 3x-weekly) $20,000-$25,000
(10,000 circ weekly) $20,000-$25,000