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Average Photographer Salary in Australia
Here's something that may/may not interest Australian Model Mayhem members. https://www.payscale.com/research/AU/Jo … her/Salary May 13 20 05:10 am Link So, what are we supposed to take away from this information ? Are you saying that photographers are underpaid? Are you saying that photographers make a lot of money? Are you saying that somehow the amount of money that photographers make in a year should somehow affect what a model charges for their services ? Your post is not clear as to what your position (if any) is . . . May 15 20 08:45 am Link How much is that per hour? May 15 20 10:20 am Link Mark Salo wrote: $42.70 per hour for an eight hour day . . . five days a week. May 15 20 11:00 am Link Ken Marcus Studios wrote: Finding clients, planning, set-up, shooting, editing and retouching, making the sale to the client, book keeping, taxes, etc, all in 40 hours. Photographers in Australia are quite efficient! May 15 20 12:20 pm Link Mark Salo wrote: Apparently so . . . although, it's no different for successful photographers here. May 15 20 12:41 pm Link I'm just wondering how much time Aussie photographers have to work to earn that AU$54,392. May 15 20 02:56 pm Link Camera Buff wrote: What I found most informative from the link: from the article wrote: Get yourself a camera, and you, too, can smile at clients coming into an office to hire someone else May 15 20 05:20 pm Link The topic is about the salaries of ‘average’ photographers, not ‘successful’ photographers. How much does the ‘average’ photographer make in the United States? It’s unclear to me why questions relating to model charges and expenses have been raised in a topic about photographer salaries. I wouldn’t imagine that photographing models is a primary source of income for the ‘average’ photographer. Where I'm located there are no professional models. However here is a link about Australian Model Payment & Rates https://www.aussieelite.com/news/model-payment-rates For me, photography makes an excellent hobby, but I’ve never wanted to be a small town, self-employed, wedding and family portrait photographer. May 15 20 09:08 pm Link The link quotes a range of $41K to $82K as covering 80% of photographers, with a median of $54K, so we know that most photographers are paid $54K or less, which, in Australia, would be insufficient to properly support a family. So we could infer that photographers are not well paid, which should not surprise anyone because photography is like most artistic matters in that an awful lot of people have a good eye and can make fairly good photographs, so only the truly exceptional are likely to be able to make much of a living from it. However, we probably need to be cautious about taking the data at face value. The only people in the world who really know how much photographers are paid work in the Aust Taxation Office (think IRS) and they are not telling. May 22 20 07:14 pm Link Photographer average income in Australia can be a little meaningless at times and 'photographer' can be all sorts of sub genres. In my circles not much income is derived from model shoots, which differs from other points of view. I tried to simplify prices / incomes on this page https://orlandosydney.com/photography-prices-rates/ . Tried to keep it to 1 page (over 3000 words and graphs) and still haven't covered it well enough. The rates (which has a direct impact on average incomes) are all pre lock down. Will that be the average in 2021? I'd be happy if so. Weddings and events had good income potential. Family portraits would be another. Advertising photography for the few who manage to get regular mainstream magazine and online work. Then there's product photography with a wide gamut of potential incomes. Looking only at payscales doesn't tell you much Jul 18 20 07:15 pm Link It seems this thread was entirely detached from the original link, as it conflates salary of employees with business income of self-employed people. Most photographers can't make a business enough regular revenue to warrant employment. Most who can make enough for a business to justify employment, would want to run their own business. So, some (a very tiny number) of those in the middle get jobs, and earn a middle income. Jul 20 20 09:58 am Link |
