There are websites like Odesk.com and Elance.com where writers and designers looking for work can find such juicy assignments as:
“Article writer needed. The budget of $50 is for 50 articles”
and
“We have about 62 photos of a product that we need to crop, then retouched and placed on a white background. The budget is $25.”
Now I know that these sites often attract writers and designers from countries like Sri Lanka and The Philippines where this ain’t bad money.
But what mystifies me is that these sites also attract writers and designers from the U.S.! I mean, come on, even the minimum wage in the U.S. is now $7.25/hour. Who works for this kind of money?
Contrast that to a recent article in Crain’s New York. The headline states that “Top NY advertising creatives charge $750 per hour.”
The oDesk writer would have to write 750 articles per hour to rake in that kind of cash. Or about 12 articles per minute.
I guess it’s the classic story of the haves and the have-nots.
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