Former NTV The Beat and Tnation presenter, Sheilah Gashumba came out to reveal how she used to earn peanuts salary. Sheilah who threw in the towel in 2019 claims, she used to earn 50k per show totaling to 1M a month yet it wasn’t enough.
She further opened up that only make up would cost her 80k putting aside the outfits in tweets.
50,000ugshs per show that’s 1,000,000ugshs a month ( 5 days a week) !! Lol JOKERS!!Some stations should be ashamed of themselves!! Come on!Why pay too little for the talent you front!! I used to get paid more when I was on Tnation than when I was on THE Beat!!
— Sheilah C Gashumba (@SheilahGashumba) May 1, 2020
Imagine 100,000 per show for style project lol thats 400,000 a month because it’s one show a month!! My makeup per show is 80,000 😂😂do the maths ps; minus my outfit head to toe😂😂😂 Lol NAH FAM!! I would rather sale somasos a whole month than be a tv presenter 😂💯😂
— Sheilah C Gashumba (@SheilahGashumba) May 1, 2020
NBS TV’s award winning presenter, Solomon Serwanja also shares Sheilah Gashumba’s pain of earning little salary and rebukes bosses who employs and exploits journalists. Serwanja argues that since journalists hustle harder on their duties, the bosses should facilitate them with better salaries.
Checkout the clip below as he drives his point home;
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