I'm sad for Maggie, but at least now we have real data on how much Gawker editors get paid.

670,000 views/month at $7.50/1000 views is $60,000/year.

Maggie was and remains the shiz.

Afraid I don't your standing to define what is or isn't a "fine writer." The lot of yez are proof that Blockbuster isn't hiring.

So hire her, already.

wow - so a gawker "salary" is an advance that you have to earn back before you even start to earn bonuses based on page views ? they dont make english overlords as benevolently as they used to. or is that standard web practice ?

Hmmmm. It seems that poor Maggie's declining page views coincided exactly with the period that Denton took over the editorial reins at that increasingly dull site. Perhaps Denton should fire himself?

@bugmenot

The payment structure works a little different than that, it's not like what they pay for tips, but more with a base that requires x amt of traffic on a monthly basis and then whatever you do above that is tabulated as your bonus per quarter...

You guys think they get paid in U.S. dollars? Oh, that's funny. They're actually paid in Gawker scrip, which can be used only at the company store.

Disclosure: Maggie was a huge reason I was still reading Gawker and now there's just Ryan's gossip round-ups. Photo-captioning celebs and three Britney items a day are what Gawker is now under Denton as editor. He needs to take a step back and cut it with his Choire envy.

So I guess Gawker is now full-on tabloid. I've seriously curtailed my Gawker reading over the past few weeks and this really just nails it in the coffin. I hope Maggie knows she's destined for infinitely better.