Survey will be released Tomorrow!
Collis Ta'eedQuick note to say, as of a few minutes ago, I have completed the last part of the survey. It’s now wrapped up in some nice PDF packaging. Weighing in at 55 pages of data and graphs, there’s all sorts of interesting stats in there like …
4 - The percentage of freelancers whose entire client list is made up of foreign business.
37 - The average number of hours a week Australian freelancers work, the least of any continent.
10 - The percentage of freelancers who have business insurance.
And there’s LOTS more where that came from. Expect the survey to be hitting the inboxes of the 4000-odd people who participated in about 24hrs. For those who didn’t participate, the results doc will be available for a small fee on the site, so don’t worry everybody will have a chance to get survey goodness!
Dor Dan
February 12th, 2008
Finally! Can’t wait…
Aaron Cruikshank
February 12th, 2008
OMG! I heard some jerk in Canada held up the whole survey analysis process for like… 2 months.
Haris
February 12th, 2008
I can’t wait.
Constantin Potorac
February 12th, 2008
Great,
Looking forward for this.
Rob Hawkes
February 12th, 2008
Excellent news, can’t wait!
Ps. Do you really mean 4000 thousand people? That’s a mighty large amount!
Devin
February 12th, 2008
10% with insurance seems high to me. In the usa, they screw us with taxes and health care. I can’t wait to see the puppy in my box tomorrow!
Thanks!
Federico
February 12th, 2008
I can’t wait anymore…
…please give us today! ;-D
Jim
February 12th, 2008
I’m excited to see it, but why the fee?
Harry Roberts
February 12th, 2008
4 million people?! Nice one lol
motiongrafiks
February 12th, 2008
Wow. I can’t wait.
Btw, 37 hours in Australia? more reason to go there
Ryan
February 12th, 2008
Great news! I am very excited to read this.
Bonnie
February 12th, 2008
Nice! This will be great for my guest speaker appearance at the Art Institute of Philadelphia.
Grant
February 12th, 2008
I think i participated.. It was so long ago… I hope i did…
Shama Hyder
February 12th, 2008
I look forward to reading it! = )
A3sthetix
February 12th, 2008
Collis Ta'eed
February 12th, 2008
whoops, not quite 4000 thousand, more like 4 thousand
I shudder to imagine analysing 4 million people’s data, this was hard enough!
Collis Ta'eed
February 12th, 2008
@Jim: Good question about the fee. The reasoning is that it’s been by far the most expensive thing we’ve ever done on this site. Anyone who participated in the survey gets it for free since they have already contributed to the production, and anyone else can contribute toward the cost. I’m 100% certain we will never recoup the cost … it was really expensive … but it worth mitigating, particularly if we ever want to do it again.
sean steezy
February 12th, 2008
Um, yeah, I would rather not pay for it, but seeing as how you did all the work, and I am just trying to freeload, well, I guess I could buy it. The site alone would be worth a fee (sorry freeloaders) b/c there is so much information, useful, tactful, interesting, insightful information. I would be doomed if I started to go freelance before reading it. Thanks for that.
I am definitely interested in the results tho. get my stats on, wha-what?
Ben Henschel
February 13th, 2008
I just got it! Very nice read, lots of information. My clients are going to hate it because I think now I charge to little. Anyway thanks a bunch for putting this together it is really useful and loaded with information in an easy to digest format.
Awesome work!!
Ben
Mona Carol
February 13th, 2008
The results were -very- interesting. I was particularly interested in the breakdown of the average salaries, and was surprised by some of the results.
Collis Ta'eed
February 13th, 2008
Yay, I sent it out and went to lunch. Just working on the main post for the site right now!
Haris
February 13th, 2008
Downloading the file now.
zaizen
February 13th, 2008
where your download the files folk? i want participate too
jcorn
February 13th, 2008
This will be exciting to see!