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Found this blurb on KRs site. I know some people don't like KR, but that is their issue. The stats from the labor department are from 2010, but I can't see it being much different today. I think I will stick with my day job where I make waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more.
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I just updated How to Become a Professional Photographer, and uncovered some new statistics:
[SIZE=+1]How to Go Pro[/SIZE]
I just updated How to Become a Professional Photographer, and uncovered some new statistics:
In 2010, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics documents that the median pay for photographers is $29,130 per year, or $14 per hour. "Median" pay means that half of photographers make less than this. You'd make the same as a bus driver, day laborer, security guard or a local delivery route driver — and each of those jobs has ten times as many jobs available as there are for photographers. To make more money, you're far better off as a personal trainer, bug sprayer, massage therapist or secretary, and there are forty times as many secretary jobs as there are for photographers! Get a real job like a cop or fireman and make twice as much - and there are also ten times as many of those jobs. Try being a farmer, who also makes twice as much as a photographer, and there are ten times as many farmer jobs as photographer jobs. Most other real jobs, like electricians, do much better than photographers. Honestly, its difficult to find a lower paying job than being a photographer, and since there are so few photographer jobs, good luck! Why try to become a photographer for low pay when there are so few jobs, when there are twenty times as many jobs as a top level executive — and they pay over $101, 000 per year! Honestly, you're twenty times as likely to become a CEO, CFO or Senior Vice President as you are to find a photographer job, so get real and enjoy photography as a hobby.
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