What is the salary for a radio station on air host?

Answer 1

You have to understand that there's a huge range between the bottom and the top

in the world of radio, just as there's an enormous difference between the bottom

and the top in, say, rock bands.

On the one end, there's an AM radio station that transmits with 1,000 watts and

can be heard by the 2,000 people in a farm town in central Nebraska. It signs on

with the corn, hog, and soybean prices at 5:00 in the morning, carries the local

news, weather, and obituaries right after that, has three hours of phone-in

buy-sell-and-trade sponsored by the Farm and Feed for the rest of the morning,

an interview with the County Extension Office's barley expert right after lunch,

some music from Mr. Ericsson's personal record collection in the afternoon, the

station manager comes on to discuss his favorite recipes from 4 to 6 in the

afternoon, and the day wraps up with a play-by-play broadcast of the Central

School's softball game live from Heifer Stadium after dinner. The game goes into

extra innings, and by the time it ends, most folks have turned off the radio and

gone to bed, because tomorrow is another work day. At last, the game is over.

The players are exhausted, and the radio announcer can finally shut the station

down and go home. It's almost 9:30 .

At this station, the station owner/manager himself may handle the on-air duties.

Or, if there are any 'hosts' or 'announcers' who keep things going on the air, they're

either volunteers, who do it mainly so their girl-friends can hear them on the radio,

or else they earn a little walking-around money plus maybe a free lunch once

a week at the truck stop over on the highway that sponsors the cotton report

on Tuesdays.

At the other end of the range, you'll find the 'host' on the FM rock station in

New York, Chicago, LA, Houston, or San Francisco. The signal from his station

may reach 8 million people. But there are 30 other radio stations that do the

same, and they all do everything they can think of to capture the listeners.

One of the things they have to do is be exquisitely careful about who they

put on the air, and the competition to land one of those spots, among the

so-called "talent", is fierce. Nobody will even be considered unless he's been

on the air in smaller places for years, turned out to be somebody who could

magically attract the ears of a large audience, and made a name for himself

in the business. He's got a chance to land the spot on a station in a big place.

His agent or his manager negotiates with the station owners, and if they come

together on the terms to hire this guy, then they actually put it in writing, they

all sign a contract, and he goes on the air for them. This one may be hauling

down several hundred $K a year, or more.

And then there are all the voices in between these extremes.

So the answer to the question is: Typically, generally, usually, somewhere

between nothing and a $million a year.

Answer 2

According to Yahoo!, "radio personalities" earn between $20,000 & $30,000 dollars each year.

Answer 3

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