Literary Life

Posted by on Feb 25, 2010 in writing

The hil­ar­ity just doesn’t stop.

Consequently, a typ­ical writer appar­ently earns 33 per cent less than the national aver­age wage.

► Literary Life — Telegraph via Jon Courtenay Grimwood

  • http://www.mfwcurran.com Matt Curran

    Mmmm. Sounds about right. Last year I earned around one sixth of my income from writing.

  • http://ianhocking.com Ian

    That’s not bad at all. I’m temp­ted to put an hourly rate stat­istic at the top of my blog, but I’m it will need to include an exponent…