Salaries For Web Designers
If you are considering a career as a web designer, your outlook for future employment is bright. The field of web design is a growing field, and an experienced web designer's salary can support not only an individual, but also an entire family.
E-Commerce Trends
More and more business lately are turning to e-commerce as a way to sell their goods instead of stocking the shelves in their physical stores with items that may or may not sell. With an e-commerce business plan, a store can sell its goods online without ever owning them. Once the online retail customer places an order, the online retailer orders that product at a wholesale price from a trusted vendor with whom the online retailer has already established a relationship. The vendor ships directly to the retail customer, and the online retailer makes a profit without ever having to receive, inventory, store, retrieve, package and ship the item.
Even so-called big box retailers, like Wal-Mart and Target, have certain items on their retail web site that are available online only and cannot be purchased in their retail stores. Web designers are needed to create, maintain and optimize the consumer's retail shopping experience.
Web Design Salary Trends
Like salaries in other fields, web design salaries fluctuate greatly depending on the designer's experience, education and geographical location. Although web design work can be done remotely, from any location, smaller companies prefer to work with web designers in their local area, so they can meet face to face without incurring travel expenses.
Coroflot Web Design Salary Survey
Coroflot, an employment agency catering to creative workers, published a web design salary survey comparing web designers' salaries to salaries of other creative designers like interior designers, graphic designers and industrial designers. The results of the study showed that all the designers had a similar entry level salary of about $15,000 per year. In the mid-range, the web designers' salary was greater than the others' salaries, with web designers earning $56,700 on average and interior designers earning $15,000 less. Graphic designers earned $13,000 less than the web designers, and industrial designers earned $3,500 less than the web designers.
At the high end of the spectrum, industrial designers earned the most, with a high annual income of $210,000. Web designers placed second with a salary of $200,000. Graphic designers followed at $185,000, and interior designers at $100,000.
The survey also showed what percentage of the survey participants had achieved different levels of education. The majority of web designers - seventy-one percent - had a bachelor's degree, and twenty percent had a Masters degree. Only eight percent found employment in the web design field with only a high school diploma.
