Aug 25
2008A career as a web designer is a wise choice. The web design industry is rapidly growing and its income provided is highly sufficient. Let’s take a look a few key aspects.
Growing E-Commerce
A lot of online businesses have set up. It’s understandable because they don’t need inventory, overhead is cheaper, and sometimes they don’t even need to actually own the products to sell them.
With some online businesses, all they do is pass on orders set by customers online to wholesalers who ship the products. The online business acts as a middleman, taking a cut off the profit.
Places like Wal-Mart have items that are available only online. And to accommodate this, web designers are needed to create, maintain, and optimize the website.
Web Design Salary Increases
Like most salaries in other fields, web design salaries vary depending on the person’s experience, education and location. Although web design work can be done remotely, smaller companies prefer to work with web designers in their local area because they can meet face to face.
Coroflot Salary Survey
There was a survey, conducted by an employment agency called Coroflot, that asked for the salary levels of web, interior, graphic, and industrial designers.
The results of the study showed that all the designers had a similar lower spectrum salary of about $15,000 per year. In the mid-range, the web designers’ salary was greater than others’, with web designers earning $56,700 on average and interior designers making $15,000 less.
Also on average, graphic designers earned $13k/yr, industrial designers $3.5k/yr less than web designers.
At the upper end of the spectrum, industrial designers earned the most, with an annual income of $210,000. Web designers were second with $200,000. Graphic designers followed at $185,000, and interior designers at $100,000.
Also according to the survey, nearly 70% of web designers held a Bachelors degree, 20% a Masters, and the rest a high school diploma.
