How Much Do Song, Book and Script Writers Make in 2021 (including Starting Salary)

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Annual Salary, Salary Range, and Highest Paying States and Industries

Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers

Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers create original written works, such as scripts, essays, prose, poetry or song lyrics, for publication or performance.

Salary
$78680
Becoming One
Hard
Education
Bachelor's degree
Job Satisfaction
Job Growth

Personality
Interest Match



Table of contents
  1. Average salary
  2. Starting salary
  3. Salary rank
  4. Salary range
  5. Highest paying states
  6. Highest paying industries

Average salary

Annual salary
$78680 per year
Hourly wage
$38 per hour

Starting salary

Entry-level annual salary
$35,880 to $49,310 per year
Entry-level hourly wage
$17 to $24 per hour

Entry-level Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers with little to no experience can expect to make anywhere between $35,880 to $49,310 per year or $17 to $24 per hour. Similar to any other job, their salary will increase as they gain experience.

Salary rank

Salary rank
B

We wanted to make it easy for our readers to compare the salary of Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers to all the other careers out there. So we created Salary Rank. We compared the salary of all careers then we gave them a rank of A, B, C, or D depending on where their average salary sit in comparison to other careers.

Salary range

Level Hourly Annual
Highest (Top 10%) $64 $133,460
Senior (Top 25%) $45 $94,090
Middle (Mid 50%) $32 $67,120
Junior (Bottom 25%) $24 $49,310
No experience (Bottom 10%) $17 $35,880

Highest paying states

State Hourly Annual
DC $50 $104,720
CA $49 $102,230
CT $47 $97,420
NY $46 $95,880
MA $43 $88,900
NJ $38 $78,570
WA $38 $78,230
NM $37 $77,240
NC $37 $76,680
VT $37 $76,210

Another simple way to increase your salary as a Poet, Lyricist and Creative Writer is to move to a higher paying state. However moving to a higher paying state like DC doesn’t guarantee that you will make more because the expenses at DC might be much higher than where you are currently living at right now.

According to BLS, the highest paid Song, Book and Script Writers are in the states of DC, CA, CT, NY and MA.

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