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Wow, great study, sad to see how under-represented women still are in all the fields.

Though, a little disappointing to see the average age range barely above legal drinking age… Maybe contributes to the rather low salary amounts and fast job turnover numbers.

posted at 04:14 am on October 17, 2007 by andrea chappelear

14 Paid Holiday/Paid Vacation???

I’m not in the USA and I’m really scratching my head over the two different questions, about paid holidays and paid vacations.

I thought the word “vacation” was synonymous with “holiday”! There must be some difference I’m not aware of.

posted at 06:04 am on October 17, 2007 by Ambrose Chapel

15 Hourly Wage??

I’d be more curious as to what people bill as an hourly wage and for what types of work – obviously the salary figures are heavily skewed by a lot of part timers out there, so what do they charge their clients typically per hour for different types of tasks – initial design, updates, routine maintenance, etc. What do they charge for hosting and who do they typically use, that sort of thing.

posted at 06:50 am on October 17, 2007 by Mark Rasmussen

16 Men rule the Web?

82.8% Male. Surely there are more women who could have taken the survey?

And it would have been very interesting to know what people charge per hour (if self-employed) for various tasks. Maybe next time?

posted at 07:47 am on October 17, 2007 by Kevin Davison

17 Women are on their way

Agree with Kevin, it seems that a lot of women are missing. But that’s a good thing to know, and it will be fascinating to see the amount of female web professionals rising in future issues of this survey ;)

By the way, I’m very pleased to know what are my co-professionals like and how I fit in the global landscape. Thanks for that, A List Apart people.

posted at 09:27 am on October 17, 2007 by Raphaele Lamaze-Beyssac

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I’m reading the report right now, but before I forget want to quickly point out that ‘paid vacation’ vs. ‘paid holidays’ was extremely confusing to me as a non-native speaker living in the UK. I wasn’t able to figure out the difference at all.

Now in hindsight and with the figures, I assume that ‘vacation’ means ‘holiday’ and ‘holiday’ means ‘bank holiday’? Maybe I’m still wrong, though, dunno. I guess all of the Americans and even all of the British people may have understood that, but I also bet (it seems rather obvious from the high figures on you ‘paid holiday’ some people didn’t ;)

posted at 09:38 am on October 17, 2007 by Julian Stahnke

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What a fascinating publication! Thanks, so much for making this available. As an IT/Web freelancer it makes interesting reading for me – I appear to be pretty much right in the middle of every category. Does that make me ‘average’, or just one of the excellent majority?

posted at 09:44 am on October 17, 2007 by Peter Holloway

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Fascinating insight into the industry – thank you for publishing the results. The gender ratio does seem to reflect what experience I’ve had in producing magazines and events for web professionals – the crowd does seem to have at best an 80/20 split. As this survey is repeated each year, it will be interesting to see if this figure changes.

posted at 10:03 am on October 17, 2007 by Lisa Price

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