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How Much Do Fashion Magazine Editors Make?

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Updated December 27, 2018

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Fashion magazines wouldn’t attract the attention they do without talented editors to coordinate shoots, capture the essence of styles and arrange photos and written content in an entertaining manner. These professionals also target gender, age and income groups through advertising and promotions, and manage the work of freelance writers, photographers and other contributors. If you want to become a fashion magazine editor, you need a college education. After you gain some experience as an editor, you can expect to earn an above-average income compared with other occupations.

Salary and Qualifications

Although top fashion magazine editors for magazines like Vogue and Glamour may make millions of dollars each year, the average annual salary for a fashion magazine editor was $53,000 in 2013, according to the job website Indeed. com. Most of these editors have bachelor’s degrees in English, journalism or communications. Some publishers might hire you with a bachelor’s in liberal arts or fashion design. You also need to be creative and detail-oriented in this field, and you must have excellent interpersonal and decision-making skills.

Salary by City

Average salaries for fashion magazine editors vary significantly by city. In 2013, editors earned the highest annual salaries – among those listed – in New York City, according to Indeed.com – $68,000 per year. If you work in Boston or Atlanta, you could earn a relatively high salary of $61,000 or $60,000 per year, respectively. Fashion magazine editors earned $57,000 annually in Dallas and Chicago, $55,000 in Los Angeles and $47,000 in Columbus.

Salary Based on Many Factors

Large fashion magazines with high circulations usually pay the most because they have higher revenues to support higher salaries. These premier publications also offer high salaries to attract the most experienced editors. A fashion magazine editor’s salary is directly related to experience in the industry. Your experience will also help you get better jobs in fashion editing. You might receive annual increases with the same employer, but the biggest salary increases will come when – and if – you move from publications in smaller markets to ones in larger cities. For example, you would likely make more working as a fashion editor for New York Magazine than you would working for a smaller town fashion publication.

Career Outlook

Jobs for editors, including fashion magazine editors, are expected to barely grow in the next decade, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is primarily due to the ongoing decline in print publications. However, more people are reading online fashion magazines and blogs on fashion trends and styles, and most major fashion magazines have online versions, which could create some job opportunities. Other job opportunities will occur as current fashion magazine editors retire or move to other publications. If you want a career as a fashion editor, keep up to date on the fashion publishing industry and be aware of when job transitions are occurring.

Resources

• Indeed: Fashion Magazine Editor Salary in Atlanta, GA
• Indeed: Fashion Magazine Editor Salary in Chicago, IL

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Magazine features editor job profile

Features are the meat of a magazine. It’s a magazine editor’s job to ensure they’re topical, engaging and accurate

A magazine features editor is responsible for the content and quality of a publication and ensures that stories are engaging and informative.

Most opportunities are in large publishing companies that produce a range of titles. These include weekly and monthly consumer or lifestyle titles, which are commonly referred to as ‘glossy’ magazines, as well as a variety of trade publications.

Features editors are also employed by specialist publishers, online media and in-house magazines.

Magazine features editors do not always need to have specialist knowledge of the subject they cover, unless the content is highly technical, although an interest in the subject is usually expected.

Responsibilities

The role varies according to the size of the publication and the nature of its content, but as a magazine features editor your responsibilities will typically include:

• overseeing the layout, appearance and content of feature articles
• generating ideas for features with writing staff
• commissioning articles from freelance and in-house writers
• managing writing staff and freelance feature writers
• editing and re-writing articles, some of which may be rejected or returned to the writer for revision
• overseeing artwork, design and photography for the features section of the magazine
• attending photo shoots
• organising meetings with writers and artists to discuss ideas for artwork, layout and features
• negotiating payments with freelance writers
• understanding and complying with media law and industry ethical guidelines
• selecting feature articles for each issue
• sending out briefs to writers, which can include word count, deadline, fee and writing style
• proofreading all pages before going to press
• raising the profile of the magazine
• networking with others at industry events
• assisting other staff to meet their deadlines.

Salary

• Starting salaries for features editors vary with the type of magazine and location. The smallest magazines can pay around £15,000, but the typical salary range for others is around £20,000 to £40,000. The largest national publications offer the highest salaries.
• Typical salaries at senior level are around £35,000 to £65,000. Your salary will depend on the responsibilities of the role and the size and type of publication.

Salaries vary significantly between different magazines. Salaries are also dependent on the success of particular publications, which can change over time.

It’s likely that you’ll start in a more junior role within a magazine, such as editorial assistant or junior reporter, where salaries will be lower. With experience you may then progress to the features editor role and gain a higher wage.

Income figures are intended as a guide only.

Working hours

A 9am to 5pm day is common, with occasional late nights to meet deadlines. Hours can be longer for weekly publications, but are usually less than those expected by newspapers.

Hours can be flexible and are usually less demanding and more sociable than other editorial positions, particularly those with newspapers.

Part-time opportunities are available, although these are slightly more common with smaller publications. Self-employment is rare, although it may be possible to work as a freelance writer if it does not conflict with your role.

What to expect

• Most work is office based, although networking, particularly at industry events, can be an important part of the job.
• There’s an equal gender balance, although features editors for men’s magazines will usually be male, just as features editors for women’s publications tend to be female.
• To help black and ethnic minority students get the training they need, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has set up the George Viner Memorial Fund to address the shortfall of ethnic minorities in the media industry and to broaden diversity.
• There are opportunities throughout the UK, but most are concentrated in London and the South East. Many of the larger national magazines are based in London.
• The dress code is usually smart/casual, although this will vary with each publication.
• The work includes a lot of responsibility and tight deadlines, which can make the job stressful.
• Travel opportunities vary with each employer, but most require only a limited amount of travel. You may be expected to attend industry events, press trips and social events, and this can mean absences from home overnight.
• Overseas travel is not common, but you may travel abroad for research and networking events. This is more common for publications that rely on information from overseas, such as international business or travel magazines.

Qualifications

The profession is open to non-graduates, but most entrants do have degrees or related qualifications.

The role of magazine features editor is not an entry-level position, so you’ll need previous experience and a certain amount of training, obtained either through a degree or on the job.

Some specialist magazines, such as those in the business or science sectors, do require a degree in a relevant subject.

Postgraduate qualifications are useful, but are not essential.

A postgraduate qualification in journalism is helpful if your undergraduate degree is in an unrelated subject. Employers will be keen to see courses that are accredited by the:

• Professional Publishers Association (PPA)
• National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ).

It’s possible to take courses and qualifications at colleges and via distance learning.

Skills

You’ll need to show:

• an interest in a range of topics
• the ability to multitask
• attention to detail, combined with an appreciation of the ‘bigger picture’
• the ability to think on your feet and respond to events as they happen
• excellent writing skills and the ability to spell and delete jargon
• the ability to understand complex subjects and explain them clearly to readers
• the ability to take constructive criticism.

Work experience

Magazine journalism, as with journalism generally, is oversubscribed, and competition can be fierce. You can improve your chances by gaining work experience before applying for an entry-level position.

Since work experience is valued over qualifications alone, a candidate with a portfolio of published work will stand a much better chance of employment.

There are plenty of opportunities to get your work published. The student newspaper is a good starting point, as are local newspapers. If you have a hobby, you can submit articles to magazines which serve that interest. It’s also possible to self-publish through a website, blog or music fanzine.

Sending off speculative applications for articles is a useful way of getting your work published. Doing your research on the magazine you’re contacting is important – editors won’t be impressed if your suggested article demonstrates ignorance about the magazine and its readers.

Although writing experience is crucial, there are other skills that journalists might need. If you can develop these, you’ll stand a better chance of gaining employment. Knowledge of HTML could be beneficial, particularly as more and more magazine content is going online.

Experience of photography can be useful, and a second language can come in handy for international publications.

Information on how to get into the industry is available from the Professional Publishers Association (PPA).

Find out more about the different kinds of work experience and internships that are available.

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Employers

The biggest employers in the industry are the large multi-title publishing companies, but opportunities are available with small, independent publishers and in-house magazines.

Online magazines are also becoming an increasingly useful vacancy source.

There are opportunities in many different areas, including:

• newspaper supplements
• online publications
• general consumer magazines
• specialist consumer magazines
• business-to-business or trade magazines
• customer or in-house publications
• directory and data publishing.

Each of these areas can include many different titles. General consumer magazines, for instance, cover interests such as the arts, news, entertainment, health and sport.

To access a detailed list of the UK’s magazine publications, see media.info.

Look for job vacancies at:

• HoldtheFrontPage
• Jobs4journalists
• Journalism.co.uk
• Campaign Jobs

You can also check the recruitment pages of publishers’ own websites.

Many jobs aren’t advertised and you’ll need to use your contacts and networks in the industry. A good way to build up a network is through experience. Alternatively, contact magazine editors directly.

Professional development

Once in employment, the variety of training opportunities available varies between employers. Some of the bigger companies usually offer staff a range of free training courses.

It’s unlikely that smaller publishing houses will be in a position to offer such a package.

The Professional Publishers Association partners with various companies to provide training that focuses on specific skill areas.

Relevant courses are available through the NCTJ. This includes the level 5 Diploma in Journalism, which reflects the multimedia environment of modern journalism. This qualification has replaced the level 3 qualification to focus on the increased level of digital skills and knowledge used by journalists over the last few years. It includes the following core subjects:

• essential journalism
• e-portfolio
• ethics and regulation
• essential media law and regulation.

You also need to take a number of elective modules which include specialist areas like business, broadcast, radio and TV journalism, as well as shorthand. Further information is available from NCTJ – Level 5 Diploma in Journalism.

Other organisations offer training in journalism, but the NCTJ and the PPA are well received by the industry and guarantee a recognised level of education.

Career prospects

The first experience of journalism you’re likely to get is with a student newspaper or free local paper or magazine. Some people also begin by publishing their work online, usually with small online magazines.

After gaining experience of writing or working for a publication, the next step is to apply for an entry-level position. These positions include:

• junior writer
• editorial assistant
• proofreader.

For smaller publications, other opportunities, such as press sub-editor, may be available for recent graduates with writing experience.

It can take many years of writing and working for a magazine to be considered for a features editor position, but this can vary with different publishers.

The larger magazines sometimes ask for previous experience as a features editor with a smaller publication, although extensive experience as a features writer, particularly with the magazine in question, is a common route into the role.

Features editors can be promoted into the senior roles of deputy editor or editor. This may take several years or it may be a rapid progression, depending on the size of the publication. Promotion can be more difficult with specialist titles, as it’s not always possible to move between different magazine sectors when looking for a senior position.

Niche titles are more vulnerable to market changes, which can also limit the opportunities for promotion. Bottlenecks can occur at the highest level due to a shortage of senior positions.

Find out how Lisa became a features editor at BBC Bitesize.

Written by AGCAS editors

February 2021

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Where and how to find a good editor

Every week someone asks me where to find and how to choose a good editor. The answer is the same, so I’ll duplicate it here.

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Hiring is optional

First, understand if you really need an editor on your team, or if you just need to hire a freelancer.

The editor in the company is an independent unit. He will assemble a team, raise everyone’s ears and release the product entrusted to him on time: even a blog, even a corporate magazine, even a mailing list, even courses. A good editor is the captain of his editorial ship. If your org chart doesn’t need another ship, don’t waste your time. nine0003

About the captain – these are not big words. I noticed that when a person deals with dull texts in a company, he himself is dull, and his texts are dull, and there is no professional growth, and hatred accumulates from all sides. In order for the editor to perlo and give out burning powerful products, give him a difficult task and great responsibility. And any student will write texts in a Word for three kopecks (maximum – for a ruble).

Take ready-made or grow

There are two options: find a cool ready-made editor or find an ordinary one and make it cool. nine0003

The first option is fast, expensive and only in your imagination. I know two dozen really good editors, half of them work in my projects, and they were loaded for the whole next year back in September. The other half work on projects that would be very difficult to get them from. Many have long had their own businesses.

Salary expectations of good editors are at the level of leading managers of Moscow banks. But the manager sits in the bank all day, and the editor only comes to meetings and simultaneously cuts 2-3 projects. So if you are not a Moscow bank, a ready-made cool editor will cost a lot. nine0003

The second option is much simpler. Hire any person with whom you are comfortable and interested, start working with him. It can be a senior student or a graduate, a former copywriter, just a person from the profession. You work with him, you see the strengths and weaknesses. Then you develop it to make a fighter out of it.

Growing an editor is more profitable for three reasons:

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2. This will be your person whom you created and raised as a professional – he knows your business and understands your problems. Even if you hire a star today, it will take him at least a month to figure out your business.
3. If you know how to grow new editors, you are not dependent on the old ones: if your native editor becomes a star and leaves to create his own studio (desperate man!), you will simply grow a new one.

Hire a ready-made editor only when you have a suitcase of free money. nine0003

How to choose

If you are looking for a ready-made cool person right away, re-read any article, blog post or newsletter that inspired you. Look up the name of the author, find him on Facebook and make an offer. Be prepared for the fact that he will not answer or set an exorbitant price tag: if you fell in love with his work, then the person is intelligent, he is in high demand.

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2. Ask to tell about yourself as a test task. This is how you reject the crazy ones.
3. As one of the requirements, indicate a detailed knowledge of advice: maximilyahov.ru/soviet – this way you will reject the lazy.
4. Ask not to apply for a job with a formal resume. Or write that resumes are not considered, only stories about yourself in free form.
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All this multi-stage rejection is needed only because there are a lot of random people among those looking for work as editors: bad copywriters, amateurs, information businessmen, dreamers, writers and crazy people. And there are especially many of those who were promised “quick money” on the Internet, but in reality it turned out that these were cheap copywriting courses. All these people will have to be rejected, and for a hundred who responded, you will have three or four sane candidates. This is more than enough to get you started. nine0003

Cheat sheet to help:

Signs of editorial incompetence

1. In response to a vacancy, the editor attaches a resume and asks to read it.
2. In a story about myself – an autobiography.
3. There are no examples of work or it is not said why there are no works.
4. The editor sets conditions for you in the first letter.
5. The editor does not ask for anything.
6. The editor in the first letter asks about salary or states his salary expectations, even jokingly. nine0752
7. The letter contains the phrases “I need a job” or “I’m looking for a job.”
8. You notice spelling or punctuation errors in a letter.
9. The letter is one large paragraph.

How to grow

The only normal way to forge a cool editor is to send him to the School of Editors and give him the task to hold out at least the first two stages. The first step is time-consuming, but simple, and the second is hellish hell, from which editors come out of steel. nine0003

No universities, including specialized journalism departments, graduate such people who are trained by the School of Editors. After the faculty of journalism, you will have a text writer with knowledge of ancient literature. And we produce guys who know how to negotiate, defend their work, launch projects and not miss shit – this is in addition to editing, design and interface.

Our guys don’t just write: they launch live projects. I’m an editor, so my favorite thing is when they make long reads. It could be your editors and your pages:

Ekaterina Yereza, a graduate of a design school. Website about early detection of cancer

Aleksey Salnikov, graduate of design school. Site about separate waste collection

Summer intensives and editorial courses generally cannot be compared with what we give at school. Just look at their schedule, topics and workload and everything will become clear. Even my editing course cannot be compared in density, richness and effectiveness with the first stage of the School of Editors alone.

We give students a profession, not disparate knowledge. Our average graduate is two heads taller than the average copywriter and a head taller than the average manager or designer.

I did the School of Editors with my own selfish interest: I needed a forge of personnel, where motivated guys would be at the entrance, and ready-made professionals at the exit. Everyone I work with now has touched this system of knowledge in one way or another. And I still don’t see where else to take the same cool guys. All my attempts to place a vacancy ended with the fact that I hired my own students.

If you pay for the training of your employee in the School of Editors, there is no job guarantee for him. We do not transfer profiles and portfolios of such students to our partner employers

Joking aside, I posted a job posting two weeks ago. Two hundred people answered me. I honestly looked at everyone and selected four. It turned out that two of them used to study with me, and two more are studying now. The rest are either simply incompetent or completely incompetent. How does it happen?

In short: in order for a great editor to work in your company next year, you need to hire an ordinary one now and send him to the School of Editors. In nine months, he will be a monster.

No, I can’t recommend it

I don’t know about you, but I have an acute shortage of normal people who are capable of something more than a page in a Word. I am one small person, nine more of the same are connected to me, and ten of us thresh much more work than is provided for by the guests. We really need smart people to help.

If I find a new good editor, I won’t recommend it to you, I will connect it to myself, because the work is just coming. I don’t know who is in crisis, but since 2006 there hasn’t been a day when our artel didn’t have a queue of clients.