Originally posted by slackercruster
Just give a rough idea on a yearly basis
Last calender year - 2011...
Through photography only work - enough to purchase a Hasselblad H4 50ms and a Mamiya Credo 80. Although last year the Credo wasn't even out yet - that should give some the idea of the numbers. Although on that aspect of work - most all of that income is immediately spent on ll kinds of camera gear, but more so on computer hardware. As an example. I've always liked my 10k++ Origin laptop, but I'm also seriously considering at 25k++ Falcon Northwest. Last calender year I spent well over 100k on computer hardware alone.
Conserative income amount... I'm one of the top 100 highest payed photographers. But I'm not in it for income - more for the creativity. I'd even do all of these three areas of work combined for about 50k if it was all exclusively about creativity.
Printing income: the amount varies, but enough to afford some of the best printer hardware ever made. I could easily spend 1k++ a month on just two printers, and also get good busines rates in doing so. Last year cleared at least 20k in printing
Storage and editing... Let me define this one further first. For the editing side one naturally has Adobe CS6 plus many, many plug ins. For storage it just depends. I have regular "access" to items such as Corbis and also Iron Mountain and two other true archival sites. Amount earned from editing and storage, about 10k - not much really considering how much time and efforts and all.