Back in April, Entercom staffers took pay cuts as part of a larger round of COVID-19 reductions that included layoffs and some buyouts. Longtime WIP employees Sue Schilling, Joe Altomonte, and Rob Charry were let go in the shuffle.

In a bit of good news, the Philadelphia-based company is planning to fully restore salaries next month, as Jeff Blumenthal at the Philadelphia Business Journal reports:

“Entercom Communications Corp. will restore full salaries for its roughly 4,400 employees in July – three months after implementing companywide cuts designed to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Other cost-cutting measures, though, will remain in effect for the remainder of the year to offset a portion of lost revenue.

In an internal memo sent Wednesday morning and obtained by the Philadelphia Business Journal, Entercom CEO David Field said it was not an easy decision, noting that other companies have announced salary reductions will continue through the rest of 2020.

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“While our nation and our economy are not yet out of the woods, I am pleased to announce that we will resume normal salaries beginning next month (starting with the July 25th pay period),” Field said. “ Each of you whose salary was reduced as part of our company-wide effort to mitigate the brutal impact of the pandemic will find your full salary restored at that time.”’

This affected full-time employees making more than $50k a year, who forfeited between 10 and 20% of their salary.

Meantime Beasley Media Group, which operates 97.5 the Fanatic and 93.3 WMMR, informed employees recently that wage and hour cuts will remain in effect until the end of the year.

Wrote CEO Caroline Beasley in a recent email to employees:

“We will be reducing performance based bonus distributions for bonuses earned Q3 and Q4, extending the 10% wage cut for salaried full-time employees and extending the 10% reduction in hours for full-time hourly employees. These cuts will be effective through December 31, 2020, respecting any outstanding contractual obligations. In addition, the company will be extending furloughs until the end of the year.”

Those cuts first became effective April 1st and were originally set to expire at the end of June.