I suppose I'm rather out of touch with the not-cs hourly wages in the US. According to:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2012/04/26/is-journal...

Journalists earn (for ~2000 hours/year) between 15 and 28 (without a graduate degree), while lower level CS started at around 25/hour. So I was clearly wrong, but it would also appear journalism isn't especially low paying either?

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/202644/gov-stat...

Seem to mostly agree.