i don't believe there is such a thing as an "average" webmaster. i don't think there ever was.
years ago, my first adult consulting client was a gentleman who lost money hands over fist while some of us were making it. our first and second designers - who were actually webmasters with very little design skills - back in 1996 made checks for $1200 or less a month and while our money was going up every with every check, theirs went down. both of them ended up within a year out of the internet because they made so little money.
oh, let's not forget my own first design client, in late 1996. we set him up with pages and sites almost just like ours, told him about which sponsors we used and how we used them and 6 months later he felt we ripped him off because he couldn't make any money. of course he had fucked everything up - just had no sense and didn't take any of the advice i gave him. we bought everything back and made money with it within days.
for every shap or brad shaw out there, there are plenty of us middle sized webmasters and i know tons of what i'd considered hobbyists who hope to be full time someday and make between $400 and $1000 each month. and there are people who keep trying even though they can't seem to make $100 a month. i find the ratio pretty similar to when i started. i think it all depends on where you knew them from and how many different sources you met them through...
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Originally Posted by desslock
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