21 Look at those Job Titles!

I love results, especially when we can take advantage of this survey and show how the internet made hundreds of jobs.

Some that weren’t in demand in the last 10 years, and then start to become the top demanding job this year.

Not only that, even if these jobs were not applicable, the skills and resources gain from having a “internet” or “computer” job, translate very well to other relevant jobs.

posted at 08:21 am on April 8, 2009 by Henry Tran

22 Great article!

Thank you guys for keeping us up to date ;-) Great article.

posted at 11:09 am on April 8, 2009 by Adidasi Originali

23 Salary vs. Hours worked

I notice how clearly the survey commentary spells out the salary difference between men and women, however, I also notice that under the “hours worked” section these is no mention of the fact that more men working longer may result in the higher male salaries.
After all, if we are going to make judgments on weak correlations we may as well be even-handed.

posted at 12:13 pm on April 8, 2009 by Matt Fitzgerald

24 Gather data on family/support situation for 2009

One thing I’d love to see gathered on the 2009 survey is data on respondents living/family/financial support situation. What I mean is, ask respondents about total household income and compare that to their individual reported income, ask whether any of them have spouses or partners that contribute to household income, and also ask about how many children or other dependents they support.

I’m curious to see this information because a personal observation I’ve made is that many freelancers I know are married and have a spouse who works, or don’t have kids to support, which would explain how they can survive on the lower income that freelancers seem to have, according to the survey.

My personal situation is that I’m working in a corporate web development position, and am supporting my wife who is a stay-at-home mom, and our two kids… and wondering how many other web development types are in that situation.

posted at 12:57 pm on April 8, 2009 by Peter Wood

25 Untitled

This is the best reference and crunched numbers that the industry
The amount of data exceeds my the expectations!

Thank you for all this great work.
Jay

posted at 03:05 pm on April 8, 2009 by Jay Rhome

26 Corporates

I am also curious about family status questions, which are of import to me, personally, as I juggle several gigs, parenthood, etc.

Also, I hope ALA Staff get a chance to weed out the spambot posts at some point here… Why isn’t spam a capital crime?

Thanks for the incredible work.

posted at 03:15 pm on April 8, 2009 by Peter Jones

27 Interesting Article

Definitely a lot of interesting data. I wasn’t too surprised that most of the respondents were male, but I have hope that will change in the future. As a female copywriter/editor, I wasn’t too surprised to learn that most copywriters are women. Overall, great work! Really appreciate all of the information!

posted at 05:55 pm on April 8, 2009 by Caitlin McAuliffe

28 Interesting data, but...

For next year, I would prefer to see companies/corporate separate from universities/libraries/non-profit. Having worked both in a corporation and an industry that would fall under universities/libraries/non-profit, I can say that they are different worlds and would like to see the difference between them.

posted at 07:13 pm on April 8, 2009 by Steve Fisher

29 Perceived disability bias??

This was a new question. Did this mean a disability bias specifically towards web designers/developers or employees in general?
And what disability(s) in particular, I wonder.

posted at 10:24 pm on April 8, 2009 by Richard Fink

30 A few small comments

Firstly I want to say thank you for these wonderful statistics! Am proudly in the apparent super-minority of being a female small-business-owning career developer from the antipodes.

My question is: would there be any way to represent the new breed of people that are exactly ½ caucasian?

Another small comment was that I found the data in the tables comparing 2 different sets difficult to read. On one hand it’s fabulous to have exact numbers, but on the other hand I found that I was subconsciously constructing line graphs in my head to represent the data, which is harder for me to do than a computer – to me having it represented as both would be the most ideal.

posted at 08:27 am on April 9, 2009 by Elena Williams