- Read copy or proof to detect and correct errors in spelling, punctuation, and syntax.
- Verify facts, dates, and statistics, using standard reference sources.
- Read, evaluate and edit manuscripts or other materials submitted for publication and confer with authors regarding changes in content, style or organization, or publication.
- Develop story or content
Sub-editor | Average UK Salary & Outlook
Sub-editors check written content before it's published in newspapers, magazines and on websites.
Sub-editors typically work around 37 to 39 hours per week.
As a Sub-editor you will typically work evenings / weekends.
This occupation tends to be:
- Investigative — Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.
- Artistic — Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require
| Average salary |
| 46,752 GBP * |
| per year |
Salary statistics
Average salary for Sub-editor
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48,726 GBP
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42,614 GBP
Average salary for part-time Sub-editor
Average salary for full-time Sub-editor
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Salary over time for Sub-editor
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35,928 GBP
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35,245 GBP
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36,814 GBP
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Things to highlight for your Sub-editor interview
Analytical Thinking Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. Integrity Job requires being honest and ethical. Achievement/Effort Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. Attention to Detail Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. Innovation Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
