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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."
Maybe if your in downtown New York but outside of that, sorry web design is not nearly as difficult as many make it out to be. Some of the cumbersome tools and even client requirements can make it work - but its not like writing the back end that serves these pages or runs the business.
I can lay my hands on four "web desinger professionals" here and frankly I wouldn't let them touch anything but web pages. Web pages are not critical. What does amaze me is how long they can take to deliver certain changes, the only thing slower are C++ programmers on our pc based servers.
60K low? Yeah, if they were a C++ programmer or programmer in a real language on a mini or mainframe.
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
Seriously! As soon as I saw it was a PDF -- posted to the web, I thought "AHA -- It's a poll of shitty web developers. That explains a lot."
And lot's not forget, it's not just a PDF -- it's a friggin' 84 page PDF. In tribute to this stupidity, I am going to follow it up by printing off copies and bringing them to my local /. anniversary party for everyone.
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