Is the business of photography dead?

[bcys1961]

I have my doubts about the information being give out on this web page at Open Universities:

https://www.open.edu.au/careers/arts.../photographers


Average salary : $57,500 and "Employment for Photographers has risen by a rate of 39.8% over the past 5 years and is expected to grow very strongly through 2017."


Sounds like a great industry to get into , but I would show these figures to the recently retrenched photographers at the SMH and Age newspapers!