Devil Works

A while back I posted how I was removing my RSS subscription from Problogger as I no longer felt I was getting value for my my readership time.

Every few months I’ll drop in on his site too see what he’s up to. When I dropped in on the problogger site today I saw one of the posts that Darren had written  himself discussing his May Income breakdown.

I did a little bit of basic financial analysis and have estimated that his income for May was approximately $62,500

Here’s how I did my math.

Darren posted that 2% of his income comes from the job boards.

Currently there are 25 Jobs posted on the board and the advertised price for this is $50 and the listings last 30 days

So based on 25 jobs posted a month at $50 a listing, this makes 2% of his income equal $1250

Logically this extrapolates out to $62,500 as 100% of his income for the month of May 2010.

I wonder how this compares with John Chow and Shoemoney? They don’t talk figures these days either.

On the bright side for Darren is that if May is an average month then his annual income is looking to be around the three quarters of a million dollars, but I’m tipping it might just be a bit higher……

Disclaimer: These figures are just my hypothesis. I don’t know exactly how many jobs Darren listed for the month of May, nor do I know how much the percentages for his income were rounded.