Originally Posted by
3speed
This made me curious, so I went to the site. He has a donation counter on the front page, showing $5,000 this month. Over $30,000 for the year so far. He's on track to make over $50,000/year running a website that is basically his hobby? Most of the content is provided to him for free and he just posts the journals and trip reports they've written? Maybe it's my lack of a high paying office job, but that sounds like a pretty sweet gig to me.
It looks like the site is on track to make at least the average income for his geographic area if not a little more, but I don't know how much overhead he has, so I may be wrong.
The average income
of a Portland
resident is $32,438 a year. The Median
house hold income
of a Portland
resident is $53,230 a year. Back when I used to frequent his forums I think he said that his wife was gainfully employed as well, so I am sure they are doing okay with the current model.
BTW, The discussion of a paywall is entirely moot. Neil has often and emphatically made his views known on the subject.