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First Ever Web Design Survey Results
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."
I really like web design and web technologies. But I can't make the plunge over cause every deal I make the people want something for nothing, and when I worked at a web design firm, it was an extra $100 bucks to make another page that matched the template and changed a little text. But you either gotta rip them off or do it for free, nothing in the middle that would benefit the designer and client. Very frustrating, also I would need someone to bounce ideas off of, or have one guy find the jobs and the other guy do the job, I get burned out doing both.
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It is rather low, the web firm that I worked for, hired teenagers and washed out mainframe programmers that picked up HTML and CSS, and they only paid us $12 an hour, but the PHP programmers made like $18/hr....yeah pretty low. I do a tech support job now and hardly do anything compared to when I was at the design firm and I get $18/hr here, and I can do homework and manage my music in iTunes (a annoying feat that takes lots of time, but I gotta do it to use it on my iPhone) I figured striking out on my own would make me a lot of money since I would charge less and do more, but it seems that unless you are in a firm they don't want to pay you at all!
To see a few of my Android apps goto: www.hartwired.com
Cute. Seriously though, I *do* really like web design and web technologies. But I can't make the plunge over cause every deal I make the people want something for nothing, and when I worked at a web design firm, it was an extra $100 bucks to make another page that matched the template and changed a little text. But you either gotta rip them off or do it for free, nothing in the middle that would benefit the designer and client. Very frustrating, also I would need someone to bounce ideas off of, or have one guy find the jobs and the other guy do the job, I get burned out doing both.