[IxDA Discuss] A List Apart web design survey results

[Katie Albers]

32,000 responses means that the number of people entering the field 
is increasing. Look at the data on how much experience those 
respondents had!

At the least, this means that whereas the salary numbers provide a 
good guide for people with relatively few years experience, their 
validity goes out the window as you get more years.

It doesn't really take adequate notice of the variety of titles for 
positions in the field (*my* first title was "Interactive Media 
Design Engineer" -- I think, and the reason for that was so they'd be 
able to pay me on the significantly higher Engineering salary scale). 
That was ~15 years ago.

As far as reading ALA, well, I check it out when I have a particular 
issue I want to investigate, but I don't have anything like enough 
time to stay current on all the blogs and lists that touch on my 
field.

Anyway...I think this is an extremely valuable resource -- 
particularly at the lower end of the experience scale...but I'd be 
careful about relying on it too heavily once you get a few years 
experience under your belt.

Katie
At 10:04 AM -0400 10/18/07, Matthew Nish-Lapidus wrote:
>I agree that the sample set is skewed towards ALA readers.. but they
>got over 32,000 responses.  That's a pretty good number.  And really,
>most people working on the web read ALA.  I, and most people in my
>office, fill out the survey every year.
>
>
>On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:54:03, Shareta Barnes <shareta at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  I took a look at the results and thought they weren't probably a very
>>  good sampling since I think the mass of them were A List Apart readers
>>  which would greatly influence the results.
>>
>>  I for one am female, black, between the age range of 25-32, work in a
>>  corporation as an Internet Marketing Specialist (what?), and have 7
>>  years of web work experience... I am pretty much no where in their
>  > results.

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Katie Albers
katie at firstthought.com