another one of those silly "how much do you make" posts

[Satch_Reed]

If you take your monthly earnings, and divide by the number of hours you work on your site, what kind of hourly wage do you come up with?

I'm trying to establish some kind of relationship between income and actual time spent generating it.

[cgiscripts4u]

Hmm this is interesting calculation, I spend most of my 'work time' online although not always 'working' and I do not keep track of the time I actually spend on the site. Heck I could be in bed and then suddenly think 'what if I add that' and spend time laying there thinking about how to do something on the site.

I went back to when I launched my site (the one that earns the money) and calculated I launched it about 40 weeks ago, it had taken me about 3 weeks to create so a total of 43 weeks.

If I work out my hourly rate based on a 37 hour week (normal working week in UK), over the 43 weeks then I have been earning about $45 hour(NET) and this is increasing all the time. I know I do not do 37 hours a week each and every week which would also push the hourly rate up.

[AdSenseAdvisor]

This is a really interesting take on things. We don't tend to think of revenue in this way because we can't see what you all do with your sites and time on a daily basis.

I'm passing this thread along to the team - I think they'll enjoy the unusual view.

Thanks!
-ASA

[robsynnott]

Since I haven't touched the site I actually make money off in years, approaching infinity per hour. :) I plan to seriously revamp it soon, though, which will bring down that average a little...

[moTi]

to all you "infinite per hour" earners, congrats you've made the best approach to it. with my daily updated news site, it's a tough job i tell ya.

i just wonder how you keep getting massive fresh visitors to your evergreen content over the years.. i mean, the amout of interested users is limited and it has to get pretty boring for return visitors. only thing i could imagine you have kind of a reference site and/or serious amount of user generated content?

[edited by: moTi at 10:58 am (utc) on June 29, 2007]

[sailorjwd]

About $60 per hour since starting in early 2004.