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Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

01/03/2008 05:48:19 PM · #27

I like the "Related Jobs" list
troll:
Bar Manager
Telephone Account Executive

prostitute:
- Underpaid Paralegal
- Telephone Account Executive
- Bored

mpeters

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

01/03/2008 05:48:27 PM · #28

How about these people? Apparantly they are very private about their salaries.

here

JaimeVinas

Canon EOS-1D Mark IV

01/03/2008 05:57:17 PM · #29

Geez I always knew that these guys at work got paid well...
Link

ok, this is the highest paying job Ive found so far
High roller

Message edited by author 2008-01-03 18:03:58.

idnic

Canon EOS-60D

Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM

01/03/2008 06:05:00 PM · #30

A Diva only earns 47k..... that's an outrage, I'm telling my manager!

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

01/03/2008 06:43:38 PM · #31

No "commercial photographer", no "fashion photographer", no "architectural photographer", what good is that list?

R.

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

01/03/2008 06:49:08 PM · #32

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

No "commercial photographer", no "fashion photographer", no "architectural photographer", what good is that list?

R.

Well put. ...for someone who only makes $31k

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

01/03/2008 06:55:11 PM · #33

Originally posted by Art Roflmao:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:
No "commercial photographer", no "fashion photographer", no "architectural photographer", what good is that list?

R.

Well put. ...for someone who only makes $31k

Oh, I wish...

R.

_eug

Nikon D50

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

01/03/2008 06:58:47 PM · #34

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

No "commercial photographer", no "fashion photographer", no "architectural photographer", what good is that list?

You have to consider the source. It's based on data culled from online job postings. Not a complete or entirely accurate source of data. Comical, however.

Carl Zeiss 50mm ZE f/1.4 Planar T for Canon

01/03/2008 07:03:14 PM · #35

Interesting.
These types of things are always skewed. There are a LOT of part time photographers and that would lower the average for most of these categories.
If you work for someone else you get a paycheck. Easy to know that you make.
Most wedding photographers I suppose are self employed, so the big number is what they sell, not what they get paid.
Around here an aveage wedding photo package is about $2000. Over a county the city guys get close to $3300. So do 30 weddings a year and yeah, that's $100,000.
But if you calculate in all the $500 part time shooters the average would drop tremendously I suspect.

Regardless, photography is not a well paying career for about 90% of those that pursue it. Do it for the love of photography!

Try "fashion photographer" - $97,000!

Message edited by author 2008-01-03 19:04:46.

yanko

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

01/03/2008 07:03:15 PM · #36

Langdon $39,000
Site Council $60,000

I think they missed a zero somewhere in the first one.

Message edited by author 2008-01-03 19:03:49.

01/03/2008 07:04:22 PM · #37

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Oh, I wish...

The internet does not lie. Maybe you are just misplacing your paychecks.

ryand

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

01/03/2008 07:05:45 PM · #38

"Bill Gates" only makes $58,000
"Role Model" makes $46,000
"Homeless" makes $31,000
"Money" makes $46,000
Jesus makes like $55,000 more than God
"Termite" makes $26,000
"Ryan" makes $64,000

01/03/2008 07:06:03 PM · #39

CEO...$46.000?
//www.indeed.com/salary?q1=ceo&l1=

How come the guys with that title on the nightly news are in the millions?

Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di LD Aspherical IF for Canon

01/03/2008 07:06:28 PM · #40

Originally posted by Prof_Fate:

Interesting....yada yada yada...

That's the shortest post on the subject of photographers pay I have ever seen from you, Prof! ;-)

fotomann_forever

01/03/2008 07:09:33 PM · #41

Originally posted by Prof_Fate:

CEO...$46.000?
//www.indeed.com/salary?q1=ceo&l1=

How come the guys with that title on the nightly news are in the millions?

$500 part-time CEOs ? :-D

sher

Canon EOS-300D Rebel

01/03/2008 07:10:52 PM · #42

Originally posted by yanko:

Langdon $39,000
Site Council $60,000

I think they missed a zero somewhere in the first one.

*waits for my paycheck*

Wenders11

Canon EOS-40D

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

01/03/2008 07:10:59 PM · #43

I think we'd all better figure out how to start collecting our $35,000 a year for being a person. Will they be sending that along with my tax refund? :)

PGerst

Canon EOS-20D

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

01/03/2008 07:14:52 PM · #44

Its interesting....of the many Christmas cards we got, 12 were Photo Christmas cards. Only ONE was done by a pro. The day of the studio photographer for things like this becomes minimal with all the online do-it-yourself cards.

ralph

Nikon Z9

01/03/2008 07:23:56 PM · #45

another thing to take into consideration is location
put in ny,ny the numbers are somewhat different

robs

Canon EOS R6 Mk II

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM

01/03/2008 08:53:25 PM · #46

Originally posted by TCGuru:

ETA: HOLY MOLY!!!! I'm in the wrong line of work!!!

It's all in the marketing - Call yourself a "hooker" and you only get 29K :-)

Blue Moon

Canon EOS-40D

01/03/2008 08:57:26 PM · #47

this is depressing, I live in an are where if you make 50K a year, you're at the poverty level. God, I hate weddings, but if that's what it takes I'll do it. I won't like it, but I'll do it...or I could just get a second job :) more likely

01/03/2008 09:40:34 PM · #48

Originally posted by Blue Moon:

If you don't like it that will show in your work, your attitude and then it becomes a job like any other - you do it for the money. Not a recipe for success where your personality (attitude) will make you as much if not more money than your photographic skills.

Also, remember, that prices are relative. I live outside Pittsburgh, PA - we have a very very moderate cost of living here, but the paychecks are also moderate, as are the weddings. The best thing is to build up equity in a house in LA and sell it, moving here with $250-300k and buy a new 4000 SF house for cash and have no mortgage payment - then you can work for lower wages and still live well!

01/03/2008 09:42:07 PM · #49

Originally posted by PGerst:

Same here - however all the non-pro cards looked like too! Bad WB, bad shadows, redeye on one, lousy BGs, poor exposures, overdone direst flash, no fill flash, etc.