The Web Industry in 2007 – salary data and survey results
October 28, 2007
The website A List Apart (ALA) has released findings from their 2007 Web Design Survey.
An impressive 32 831 participants completed the ALA online survey. 48% of responses were from the USA, 33.5% from Europe, 5.8% from Canada, 4.7% from Australia & the Pacific and 7.8% from the Rest of the World.
ALA survey results suggest that the average web worker;
- is male (just 16.8% of respondents were female)
- is aged between 21-31 (61%)
- has a Bachelors or Masters degree (67%)
- works more than 40 hours per week (61%)
- is an employee (23.4% are self-employed or freelancers)
- has spent less than 3 years at their current job (68%)
The majority of respondents described themselves as either a Developer (25%), Web Designer (20%), Designer (10%) or Webmaster (6%).
79% of web workers were “frequently excited” by their profession.
Salary patterns to emerge include increased earnings for employees in larger organizations and for web developers and web designers with more work experience.
Salary information from the ALA survey is reproduced below.
95% of participants indicated they consulted websites and blogs to stay current in their profession while less than a third undertake in house training or attend seminars and conferences to upskill themselves.
20% of respondents felt they lacked backend skills to do their job while 25% thought they needed to improve their frontend programming skills.
Click for full results from A List Apart’s 2007 Web Design Survey
