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title: "What is the salary of wildlife photographer in India?"  
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published: 2018-03-06  
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# What is the salary of wildlife photographer in India?

What is the salary of [wildlife](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/93532/why-we-see-wildlife-images-at-kidszone) photographer in [India](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/336618/top-10-electric-bicycles-in-india-in-2024-to-improve-your-health)?

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## Answers

### Answer by Vishal Kesarwani

## "Wildlife Photographer"

![What is the salary of wildlife photographer in India?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/8ad35a6b-b111-4a80-a4f8-9740f5176cb9/images/2f2dca60-1ad5-4a66-895e-85941d48c842.png)**\**

**Well, it depends on the type of photographer you are.. A freelance photographer gets paid according to his work the more you work the higher you get paid and it's limitless. I**f you are a photographer who is being funded by someone else then the pay is limited.

**There exists another category where a freelance photographer collaborates with channels and magazines and provides them what they need,** Here you get paid a lot… if you are mainly talking about a kinda permanent job then it starts from somewhere around 15k while you are an intern or kind of an assistant. **But it, later on, increases as you grow up in the field.**

Well, the truth is that Wildlife Photographers don't or hardly earn a salary. The scale is way too low. Most of the wildlife photographers earn their money by being a photography guide or by giving photography coaching. ![What is the salary of wildlife photographer in India?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/8ad35a6b-b111-4a80-a4f8-9740f5176cb9/images/74bf97d4-fedc-4916-a74d-a5dda6584c81.png)\
I know it's sad but it's the truth. I also wanted to make it as my professional career but you just couldn't earn money by clicking pictures of animals. Most of us keep wildlife photography as a hobby and have jobs/businesses going on side by side. \
**Most of the wildlife photographers make their income by showcasing their work to the different platform it** can be online where they can create own portfolio and also by selling photos to different photo stock website. Whereas if you work for a famous brand you most likely to make around 3.6 pa …depending upon your work and experience \
I'll personally suggest you take wildlife photography as a hobby and focus on developing a career with other things. \
**"All the best"**


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