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PDN presents Stock Income Survey Results

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Jun 4th, 2007 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)

From PDNonline:

“For a few years now, stock photographers have fretted that their income from stock licensing has been going down. To find out if there’s a consistent pattern to these anecdotes, and to learn more about who’s earning what, and which agencies are delivering the best sales figures to their contributing photographers, PDN conducted its first stock photo income survey on PDNOnline in March. Some of the results are now presented here; more results and analysis is also presented in our June 2007 issue.”

Comparing the performance of various agencies, those that appear to provide the most stock income to their contributors are Getty and Corbis. Respondents from those agencies averaged $63,100 and $58,600 in 2006 stock income, respectively. Masterfile photographers were a distant third, averaging $38,300 in 2006 stock income, and Jupiter Images photographers were fourth at $26,900, which was barely ahead of self-distributors’ 2006 stock income. Read more here

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