How much do photographers make? Well, that is a bit of an open ended
question. But I could understand the Curiosity after seeing articles like
this one on this one. Well, photography is one of the top 10
most popular jobs in America. And it has steadily moved up since 1990,
when it was number 13, according to jobs in the nineties.com. While
that's not true, but it has grown in popularity over the years along with
how much somebody can actually make. Being a photographer, to how much
photographers make varies based on several factors, the type of
photography, the location, the skills needed, not just the
technical skills, but all the other skills that make somebody a good
photographer. First, let's talk about the type of photography. And
as any photography enthusiasts knows, there are many different
types of photographers, just as many different types of people who love
to take pictures with their smartphones, who consider themselves
photographers as well. But look, there's just too much different
types of photography to mention in this one video. And of course, I
want to find the ones that are most lucrative, but I really narrowed
down this list based on that, as well as some I just don't know about
when I research some of them for you, then there's some that I just
don't have any interest in researching PII. It's my video,
right? Please don't unsubscribe, actually subscribe. If you haven't
done so already file left and in the list that you may be interested in
or want to find out more about. And be sure to let me know in the
comments below. That said, we'll be looking at commercial photography,
fashion photography, wedding photography, and real estate
photography. According to Erie, Erie, erie.com, I can remove that
anyway, according to them. commercial photography salary is an
average of $56,681, which breaks down to an average hourly rate of
$28 an hour. Well keep in mind that this is for the United States. And
it states here that it can range from between 42,000 on the low end
to 71,000, almost 72,000. on the higher end, what is interesting is
that it's projected to increase to 68,000 by 2026. Know what, let's
just use a more popular side for the average salary information. Let's go
with something like zip recruiter.com. So the commercial
photographer and zip recruiter is just a little bit below what it was
before. So let's call it 52,000. Now, it can be for several reasons.
But according to business wire, a lot of that growth is mainly due to
the company's rearranging the operations and recovering from
COVID-19 impact. As you would recall, there would have been a lot
of closure of commercial types of activities, which are starting to
open back up now. Businesses need to get back on the map brands need to
get back on the map. So it would make sense that they would be
reinvesting in their business on their brand through commercial
photography. If we look at the next type of photography, which is
fashion photography seems to be a little bit lower coming in at
$41,354, which is about $22 per hour. Of course location of the work
would play a big factor in this. For example, you would expect a fashion
photographer where the job is based in the countryside to pay as much as
one base in this city. You know what I mean? Also, the average per
country varies as you can see here on salary expert.com, you can easily
check on the average by country. And upon checking it you will see that
it's already based on your currency. And as we are currently talking
about fashion photographers, one of the highest paying photographers in
the world is a fashion photographer, Morgan Norman, his net worth is over
$10 million. My dad how much he charges. Next one is particularly
high at an average of 104,000 per year. That's a wedding photographer,
great wedding photographers are not cheap. They can be really expensive.
I know. I used to be one a reasonably priced one that is maybe
my skill was tied to my price. This getting other really good can show
you. Okay, sorry, that says as much as I can show you, you know, some
clients can be plus I didn't charge that much so I can't afford to get
sued. fourth one is a real estate photographer averages at $60,520 a
year. This one is interesting, because while it can be as low as
$18,000 per month, zip recruiter is seeing annual salaries as high as
$210,000 a year. You'll say the other types of photography mentioned
with real estate photography, the price you get paid for a job can
vary a lot. It comes down to the willingness of the client to pay the
price for quality work. If money is not a problem, and it's just to be
associated with that high profile photographer.
Oh no, not me. Maybe this guy what's only so much of a rule that the type
of photography that you offer please as well as your location that you
offer it. What really is most important is your ability to market
yourself and to sell your services. And I've tried my hand at several
types of photography, and wedding photography to portraits to family
shoots to events, commercial photography, and even real estate
photography. Believe me, when I see that a photographer can be
ridiculously good, he can have amazing work. But that doesn't
necessarily mean he's making a lot of money. Fortunately for me,
though, I had some experience in online marketing and advertising. So
I was able to put some of the things in place like with a website,
Facebook ads, a good portfolio and some promotions to get hired and
then get paid for my work compared to some guys who have a lot way
better looking photography than I have to offer. But this is not about
me, it's about you. Is photography, a good paying job for you, guys,
it's either you're curious about that, whether it's a good paying job
for you, or you're just curious about how much photographers make.
Either way, there are some lucrative photography jobs, keeping in mind
that the work varies a lot. And then the amount of work and the time that
you take to do our job, and then get paid can be really different. For
instance, even though a wedding photographer, repeat so high, when
you compare it to the work of a commercial photographer, most cases,
the commercial photography may not be as time sensitive, tense, like as
a wedding, when you're not as much in control of what is happening. I
know for a fact that some weddings could go for 12 to 14 hours long.
That is probably why the average is so high. Whether you are deciding to
do this or started to do this as a side hustle. Or as a full time job,
I would highly recommend to focus on building your best portfolio. And of
course, continuously updating it while focusing on one main social
media platform, and our website. And unless you're in the game for a long
time, stick with one type of photography, this is so that you can
become an expert there and eventually raise your price. So that
hopefully one day you can make as much as this guy knows in our follow
up video, I might find you in the first page charging like $1,000 per
hour. But to answer your question on how much do photographers make that
really depends upon the specialization, experience level
police of business years in business or freelancing and other factors
such as whether or not they work part time or full time. Based on the
factors that we spoke about in this video. There are many things that
truly determine how much money photographers make. And you know,
even if you were just curious about how much photographers make and
you're not a photographer or anything like that, but you like
content like this, then don't forget to subscribe and check this video
out next, where I talk about some side hustles that you can get
started with TD and how much you can make doing those things, how much
people make. So I'll see you over there.