 Wages For Graphic Designers, Have you seen how much these folks make? |
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 Jul 7 2006, 06:58 AM
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Hidden Secrets can't be told threw just words. One must feel what the other feels to truely understand...  Group: Members Posts: 1,523 Joined: 8-January 06 From: Sacramento California Member No.: 16,756  |
Ok, well i was looking around online for a job this evining, and i just happpened to look in the computer section, and there was somthing for a graphics designer, and i asked to myself...
hmm i wonder how much graphics designers can make.. so i went to the page that showed how much they would make... and i took a look at it and my jaw droped.... they can make from 45-70K witht hat particular company... then i looked elsewhere and on the Freelance-writing.net they say you can make between 100-150k a year!! my jaw dropped even more... because this was part time, and from the comfort of your own home!! OMG im drooling right now.. lol, i want to become a forensic scientist, and i will no matter what gets in my way, but i was thinking... if i can make according to my college professor who was a criminalist for over 15 years, i will make between 50-100k a year, and if theres a part time graphics design job out there... where i can work from my home, i can be making at most over 200k a year.... bust this isn't about me can you believegraphic designers can make up to 150k a year!?!? |
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Jul 7 2006, 07:13 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 213 Joined: 4-July 06 From: Nottingham UK Member No.: 26,049 |
I have been a graphic designer for over 10 years & i've never earnt anywhere near that, even when I was working in Formula 1 designing the car graphics.
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Jul 7 2006, 07:19 AM
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Hidden Secrets can't be told threw just words. One must feel what the other feels to truely understand... Group: Members Posts: 1,523 Joined: 8-January 06 From: Sacramento California Member No.: 16,756 |
QUOTE Make $100,000 a year working from home After taking AWAI’s Graphic Design Success program, you’ll be fully qualified to make money as a freelance graphic designer. And you can make a very nice living doing graphic design only. Combine it with copywriting, and your income will soar even more. One colleague of mine, Nicole M., is only 33 years old and makes $100,000 a year working out of her home doing desktop design for direct marketers. She said she learned 99% of what she knows about graphic design “on the job” when she worked in the graphics department of a major direct marketer. well then i think your in the wrong area then  because apparently people canmake allot of money through it.. lol |
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Jul 7 2006, 07:34 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 213 Joined: 4-July 06 From: Nottingham UK Member No.: 26,049 |
QUOTE(Albus Dumbledore @ Jul 7 2006, 08:19 AM)  well then i think your in the wrong area then because apparently people canmake allot of money through it.. lolMaybe its just different here in the UK. Im freelance, & the most I can charge is £18 an hour, plus other bits & pieces I chuck in if its a pain in the arse job im working on. The 'artwork manipulation' charge is a nice one. If someone supplies me with their own artwork on cd & its unuseable I normally stick this charge on to cover my time redoing it. I tend to find my time is more filled doing vectored linear artwork nowadays, as opposed to more traditional 'photoshop' artwork. You cant see the results with this as obviously as you could, say a flashy full colour image, so people are more reluctant to pay high prices for it. It keeps me in beer though so I cant really complain... |
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Jul 7 2006, 06:26 PM
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Super Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 381 Joined: 1-December 05 From: Xempt..T17 GFX Crew Member No.: 15,202  |
Yea, its definetley diffrent than where you live. A real good graphics designer can make thousands of dollars. But you have to be really...really good at it and you have to be sighned up with a very big company. Otherwise you wont be making much..
I think im just gonna do what my Dad does and sell HDD tapes, but who knows. |
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Jul 7 2006, 06:56 PM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 623 Joined: 26-August 05 Member No.: 11,160 |
yea the really good ones makes tons of money. I have seen guys asking like $5000 for just a cd cover. But for that price you would have to be one of the best. I can only image what the guys making addes and websites get.
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Jul 7 2006, 10:31 PM
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To Cool for Cache  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 1,091 Joined: 16-June 05 From: Some Place. Member No.: 8,317 |
*hones skills*
Well I guess it's time for me to get some extreme practice in! Thanks for that tid-bit of info. |
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Jul 7 2006, 10:36 PM
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Hidden Secrets can't be told threw just words. One must feel what the other feels to truely understand... Group: Members Posts: 1,523 Joined: 8-January 06 From: Sacramento California Member No.: 16,756 |
*cough*what skills?*cough*
lol joking, your really good at graphic designing KuBi, lol... and good luck being so young and getting a career like that.. haha most places ask for like 5 years of experiance with gfx
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Jul 8 2006, 12:25 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 8-July 06 Member No.: 26,277 |
Lol yep graphic designers make heaps..
they do over here too.. thats why next year my family want me to take a graphics designing course lol  |