How Much Can I Earn By Doing Website Design?
Q. I’m thinking of learning web-site design as one of my hobby and I would like to know what is the average income of designing website.
What is the price they usually charged to hire people to design their website.
What are the programs that I need to learn to start designing my websites?
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Our senior web designers make around $95-250/hour depending on the type of work, if on an hourly basis. This is in Manhattan, where prices are higher.
Otherwise, a general idea is that a professional website designer can charge anywhere starting at $500 per custom-made page. That means that the page is created entirely by them, from their own imagination. Otherwise, if you are simply copy pasting a template, then $50-100 should do just fine.
It really comes down to whether you do customized work or you simply copy and paste into existing templates. If you want to be dishonest you can always charge high prices for template work as well.
It depends on where you are and what you include in designing a website. If you’re a graphic design person and would make the graphics and determine the layout of the site, then those people can earn between $15/hr to several hundred per job. Since the design only needs to be done once, there can be a reputation for this kind of work being temporary and sporadic. Also, how much you make is directly proportional to how good you are, and if you’re good enough then you can make truckloads of money.
If you’re looking at doing some the programming on the site (java, php, etc), then you’re looking at anywhere from 15/hr to 100/hr for contract jobs, 40k/yr to 100k/yr for full time work. This kind of work is in high demand even with the economy performing poorly. Layoffs happen frequently, but if you’re good you don’t need to worry too much about them because you’ll either not get layed off or you’ll be able to find a job within a month, less if you’re not as picky.
It depends on whether you work for a company or freelance. I have a friend who does both. Working for a large company his starting pay (he started this year) was $40,000 +. He also freelances with different companies and make $50.00 or more for each web-page. It all depends on the content, time limitation (needed within 2 days, month, etc) and how many pages are needed. It really is a very good field to get into. The only problem with freelacing for some people is they usually don’t take taxes out of your check, so therefore you have to plan ahead and save along the way. You certainly don’t want to end up owing a huge tax which you can’t pay. The penalties are horrific!
It varies a great deal depending on experience and skill (and which parts of web design you do, its a very broad area and most sites have teams of specilists working together).
In London, you could expect to earn between £25,000 and £50,000 per year.
The core parts of web development don’t need you to learn any programs beyond a text editor. It is web languages you need to grasp, http://opera.com/wsc/ has a good introduction.