If you earn $1,000 per website and do 25 websites in a year, you’re earning more than someone who earns $20,000 per website and only does one. This doesn’t tell the whole income story though of course, because it doesn’t factor in number of completed sites in a year.

14% are between $3,000 and $5,000 and those left are up at the high end of the earnings spectrum. Another large contingent contingent (34%) earn between $1,000 and $2,000. There is a very large (42%) contingent earning less than $1,000 per website. The exact question was:įor those who build websites for clients: the average amount of money (USD) you personally earn from a completed website is closest to: Incoming MoneyĪt the time of this writing, here are the poll results for what CSS-Tricks readers are earning from building websites. You’ll be purchasing all software and hardware needed (as laid out in the previous posts) and you have an average load of clients paying you (as sourced from the poll).

Let’s assume a fresh start in independent web development. Now we can wrap it all up by looking at the numbers all together. We started this series to get a look at the financial ins and outs of a web developer these days.