I make $14/hr as a 23 year old. I'm an automotive photographer and social media manager, running a 10k+ follower Instagram. I take all photos of cars at our dealership for our website as well as all forms of social media. How much should I be being paid? I know I'm well under average, just looking to get a better idea.
$13/hr
Are you planning to Leet Hard to improve your TC?
What is your level of education?
I'm graduating with a bachelor's in Marketing this December
Ask for more!
10k followers isn’t a whole lot. I think $14/hr is plenty
That's in addition to shooting between 120-160 cars every month, not just managing the Instagram
There's approximately zero other people on this site who do or are familiar with your job - nobody here knows how much you should get paid. That said, it doesn't seem like a car dealership is really gonna pay top dollar for those skills - you may want to look into what sorts of companies pay a lot for your kind of work.
That's a good point. Sorry to post something that most here aren't familiar with - I'm just looking to get an idea.
Spot on response Google. Not a common job for this site, but absolutely guaranteed that a car dealer is bottom barrel as an employer and pay scale for this sort of role. Or any role.
How many hours you work ? Do you plan to get new skills ? How good is the picture quality and the equipment you use to take pictures ? What is Instagram ?
A lot of small businesses are very eager to grow their social media presence and 10k local followers would be a huge deal to them. Once you graduate you can leverage your social media experience with a small to medium size business. I think you could easily be paid $20/hr at that point... but you need to sell yourself better. Ask them how much a customer is worth to them and look at user engagement to prove you bring new customers in. 10k followers that are the companies target market can be a very big deal. Commercials cost a lot and they only give 30 seconds to a broad market. Hopefully you are hitting the target market and you are retaining engagement! I’d say leverage that experience at a new job and tell them you charge $20/hr. They won’t know what you get paid and will think that’s what you’re worth. But it may be more project based work as opposed to hourly wage... maybe take on a company and charge per post??
You don't need to get paid anything. Work on branding yourself and you'll be worth millions in 10 years.
FYI i pay my nanny with 0 education $20/hr so she is beating your TC by a fair bit. You need a different job
$14/hr
Savage.
He's not wrong. In today's world 10k IG is nothing. My wife has that. Need half million to really have something. And working for a car dealer is bottom rung employer. Need to make a move OP.