ACM Journals Communications of the ACM Communications is the Association's monthly magazine aimed at the broadly diversified ACM membership. Reader affiliation ranges from universities, industry, and government to laboratories and research institutions. A subscriber profile completed in October 1985 showed that 53% of Communications' 75,000 readers are in programming and company management, 54% have been in the computing field for 10 or more years, 57% have advanced degrees, and 28% earn salaries in the neighborhood of $75,000 per year.