Why Most Social Media Consultants Make Less Than My Pizza Delivery Guy
What I’m about to tell you is not shocking. It’s just simple math.
Most social media consultants charge about $80-100 per hour. They then sell about 20 hours of their time per week, which means that they are “successful” by consulting standards. They then gross $7560 per month, or about $87.2k per year. After taxes and very basic expenses, they are left with $39,203, or $3266 per month
That comes out to about $18 an hour.
That’s what the guys who deliver pizza near my house make. I called them to check.
Over the next few weeks, we’re going to talk about how this does not have to be your reality, if you work in social media.
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Jason Seaborn, on Feb 15, 08:09 PM, wrote:
Those are some pretty sizable expenses to drive down an $87K/year salary (for half-time work) to $39K a year.