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I came upon this website that lets you compare salaries in any profession in any region or city [US only, I guess]. You can even compare the same job in different cities or even compare different professions either overall or in a specific city. After checking for my profession in different cities, I popped in the evergreen debate of journalists versus bloggers to see how they fare.
Surprised, right? But I guess, the numbers are skewed by few high-earning bloggers. Also, they must be only including bloggers who claim to be professional bloggers and doing it on a full-time basis. If they included all 50 million+ cat-bloggers, the numbers might be different. What do you think?
PS. The resemblance of the color bars to the Indian tricolor is accidental. I am not that desi.
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by Patrix | on Wednesday, September 27th, 2006 at 10:41 pm | 
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September 28th, 2006 at 4:15 am reply
Since blogging revenues are location-independent, maybe I should quite my job and blog full time. $39,000 is a lot of money in Indian rupees!!!
September 28th, 2006 at 10:15 am reply
perhaps most bloggers earn more than journalists, but not AS bloggers, but in their day-jobs.. who knows…:)
September 28th, 2006 at 11:36 am reply
Gaurav, You’re right. Blogging does give you that luxury of living in an area with a low cost of living and yet enjoying the high levels of earning. The choice of blogging topics might also be important to earning the big bucks.
Sqrl, well, I don’t suppose they have done that. I’m sure that if blogging is considered as a profession for comparative purposes, then the earnings are related to the profession and not to the person earning it.
September 28th, 2006 at 1:47 pm reply
Patrix
Bloggers do so/exist for the love of it, while Journalists work (it is a career}.Blogging, certainly, is rampant like a wild fire, emerging as a potent n genuine discussion forum in the global village, but am not sure the society is matured enough to consider it as a career option, unless the blogger is aligned to a firm/organisation.
Blogs need to stand for a cause,sustain its existence for long time, through catering to its readership as well as to enhance the base.as I touch upon this,I feel it’s more like being enterprising than carving a career for self..what do you?I could be impish in my conclusion…but
J
September 28th, 2006 at 5:34 pm reply
You are obsessed with blog earnings and ads! :P
September 28th, 2006 at 6:22 pm reply
Jyo, let me put it this way. Most people blog for the love of it. If you get paid to do what you love to do, then hey! sone pe suhaga, right?
Confused, I swear! Guess it says something about me.
September 28th, 2006 at 6:24 pm reply
patzu,
man…u are still at it???!!!??? Whoa…tu mahaan hai baap! chal phone kar time miley to!
Y
September 29th, 2006 at 12:38 pm reply
Do Bloggers earn more than journalists?…
Do Bloggers earn more than journalists? posted at IndianPad.com…
October 4th, 2006 at 8:07 pm reply
The indian tricolor is saffron/white/green. What you have is not the tricolor. Yup, you are not even that desi :)
October 4th, 2006 at 8:35 pm reply
SomeDude, someone has forgotten the blue dharma chakra and did not see the white space between the bars.