...(AAUP, 2006; Mason, 2007; O'Brien Hartner, 2007). Open access to information about salary is not generally as available, however, for nurses who work in the private sector. Often an offer of salary in that setting relies on the negotiating skills of the nurse, informed by knowledge of what others in that role are being paid. The experiences reported here are the first detailed descriptions of how nurses who edit professional journals are compensated for their work.

In nursing, there has been little or no publication of salaries of nurse editors. Nurse editors are generally high-level nurses working at prominent levels in administrative, clinical, or faculty positions. Their powerful roles in the profession position them well to serve as gatekeepers to the nursing literature; they literally decide what will be published for the nursing profession.

Nursing editors work part time and full time, have other professional positions or not, and work varying amounts of hours weekly on their journals, depending on the size and frequency of the publication. Nurse editors' compensation is generally provided by publishing companies or by professional associations that own or publish the nursing journal. Nurse editors who work full time for publishing companies can be paid a salary, which would then include routine benefits. Part-time nurse editors are generally offered an "honorarium" for their editorial duties. Editors who are faculty members often use the honoraria as a part of their faculty salary or turn them over to their employers in lieu of grant funding or other type of payback to the university for time spent.

The Nurse Editor Role

Comprehensive data about the nurse editor role have only recently been published (Freda & Kearney, 2005a, 2005b; Kearney & Freda, 2005, 2006). The monetary compensation data reported here was collected as one element of the 108-question email survey used in the larger study, the overall purpose of which was to learn about the nurse editor role and the range of practices used by nurse editors. The study was also designed to give editors the opportunity to comment on their experiences as editors.

Data collection process. Nurses who had decision-making responsibilities for journal content and policy were the sample, along with associate editors who were empowered to make decisions for the journal. Institution review board approval was obtained from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The authors identified 177 possible nursing editors through a search of international publishing Web sites, lists of conference attendees (including the International Academy of Nursing Editors), World Wide Web searches, and referrals from the editors contacted.

Email addresses were found for 164 editors; 137 responded and expressed willingness to participate. The survey was conducted using email, and all editors were assured anonymity. When email responses...

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