Hopefully its more than what they pay freelance photographers! San Gabriel Tribune pays a measly $40 per assignment.

 

LA Times pays 80-100k though

 

That's why Spiderman is always broke.

 

Well, let's see. I had a paper route for about 3 years when I was 13-15, and I seem to remember the average take was around $40/week. This may sound crappy to some, but at that age, it seemed like all the money in the world.

I was actually responsible for collecting my own pay. The paper would send me a "bill" for the papers for two weeks, and I would go collect $$ from the people. Whatever was left over after the bill was paid was mine to take. The tips at Christmas time were always nice.

PS - OF COURSE I had the one old hag on my route that used to bitch about everything. Wet paper this, late paper that, blah blah blah. I got the old bag back one rainy day when I peed on her paper and put it back in the bag. Give me a shitty tip, will ya!

 

when i was in school and workign at a bank, people would come in the bank all the time with their paper delivery checks from the news tribune customers, was only like 10 or 20 dollars, plus sometimes the checks even bounced! not worth it plus the people who did it looked like they needed cash.

 

 

 

I got decent tips at x-mas and when i quit.....

I can't imagine though an ADULT doing this.... it seems like most papers are delivered by adults in cars now. Both of our local papers are delivered that way.

It was always a "kid" job.....

I remember having to collect the $ also....try collecting from 80 assholes... great time! that definately drops your hourly rate!!!!

 

That was probably because they collected most of their pay from customers and got a check because some customers mail in their payment...

 

My friend use to do this and he was paid $500 per month. He worked 7 days a week from 2 or 3 to about 6 or 7, Sundays were even worse because they had to come in even earlier to "assemble" the papers and the ads and place them in bags. I'm not sure how many homes he delivered to but he said that it took 1 hour to assemble the paper, load it in the car and the rest of the time was driving.

One thing he said was he was one of the lucky ones who didn't have apartment complexes in their route, so he could stay in the car the entire time as he tosses papers out the window.