How much does a photogragher make and hour?

Most professional photographers are self-employed, so their income depends on how much paid work they can find. Business skills are just as important as Photography skills, if not more so. With the advent of digital photography, competition for high paying jobs is very fierce and average income for freelance photographers has dropped greatly.

Photographers working for big portrait studiOS like Sears or Olan Mills are paid very poorly - $8-$10/hr is typical.