The thing about salary is that it isn’t only about money, it is about your overall quality of life. It is about the things that you can or you can’t do. The films that you can or can’t see when they are first released, the places or restaurants that you can or can’t eat at, the shops or clothes you wear. The holidays that you take. We all know about the moan that you’ll never be able to afford a mortgage on a publishing salary, but it isn’t only about that. It might not seem much for one or two years or at the beginning of your career but after 5 or even 7 years it takes its toll.

Publishing’s pay drain | theBookseller.com (via fluffynotes)