This career path can lead to a wide variety of job positions, including:
- Webmaster/Web administrator
- Web designer
- Web developer
- Multimedia specialist
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Job openings requiring Web development and design skills are expanding as fast as the World Wide Web itself. The number of all Internet-related jobs is expected to grow much faster than the average for all occupations in the next decade as more and more companies use the Internet to do business. Web page designers and webmasters work for all kinds of businesses, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions and governmental agencies.
Job Growth Statistics
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook:
- The middle half of all network systems and data communications analysts — which include webmasters — earned between $46,480 and $78,060 in 2004 (the last year for which figures were available).
- The highest 10 percent of employees in that category made more than $95,040.
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According to America’s Career Infonet:
- Multimedia artists and animators — who use a variety of electronic tools and media to create special effects for computer games, movies, music videos and commercials — in Texas earned a median hourly wage of $20.35 in 2004, or a median annual salary of $42,300.
- The top 75 percent of employees in that job category earned a median annual salary of $47,300 and the top 95 percent, $68,000.
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Earthweb’s 2007 IT Salary Guide lists 2007 average national salaries for senior Web developers in 2007 as $71,000 to $102,000, with those figures rising an additional 6 percent in the Dallas metropolitan area. The site lists average salaries for a number of today’s tech jobs, as well as the fastest-growing IT jobs and top certification categories in the country.
Degrees, Certificates and Awards
Students should have a basic understanding of personal computers and operating systems as obtained in ITSC 1401, BCIS 1405 or COSC 1401 and problem solving, logic structure and relational database concepts as obtained in ITSC 2435 or equivalent experience approved by designated Information Technology personnel.
See the organizational diagram (PDF - 30KB) for this career path.