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First Ever Web Design Survey Results

Posted by kdawson on from the where-the-big-bucks-are-yeh-right dept.

rainhill writes "In April 2007, A List Apart and An Event Apart conducted a survey of people who make websites. Close to 33,000 web professionals answered the survey's 37 questions, providing the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development (PDF) as practiced in the US and worldwide. Among the findings: over 70% of people in this field earn less than $60K per year. There is little gender bias in salary. And over 70% of Web workers post to a blog; this number shows very little dropoff with age."

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  1. And they made a PDF... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sigh... at least it's not a giant image of text.

  2. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...there are 33,000 web professionals.

    I thought that, for many people, it was very much an "on the side" activity.

  3. Oblig. web design site. by jackpot777 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I occasionally take a look at Web Pages That Suck to get a feel for what NOT to do.

    In summary: don't be doing this. It's not big, and it's not clever.

    --
    Shiny. Let's be bad guys...
    1. Re:Oblig. web design site. by alyawn · · Score: 2, Funny

      In summary: don't be doing this. It's not big, and it's not clever.
      You need to warn people w/ a NSFW. I practically fell out of my chair!
    2. Re:Oblig. web design site. by Curmudgeonlyoldbloke · · Score: 2, Funny

      That's absolutely beyond belief...

      Incredibly, they do offer web design courses:
      http://www.hrodc.com/WEB.DESIGN.htm

      (Surely it's a joke though? A standard page format, each one populated by "Eliza"?)

  4. I don't know what's scarier by MeditationSensation · · Score: 4, Funny

    That there are 33,000 web design "professionals" out there... or that they have enough downtime to fill out a silly survey. ;-)

  5. What About IE? by baomike · · Score: 2, Funny

    They didn't ask how many designed web site that were usable only with IE.
    and then why?