Web designer wage?

[Phaser]

Just wondering what the normal wage is for a web designer is as I think i'm slightly underpaid.

I don't have anything to do with the actual design of the website (this is outsourced to India) but I usually get the brief off the client, go through the concepts with them, do a bit of the XHTML and CSS (again, a lot of this is outsourced to India), make any tweaks and so on then make the site live.

I also do the Contribute templates, some basic PHP bits, search engine optimisation, Zen Cart websites, Wordpress blogs etc....

I'm on £6 an hour.

Is this about right? I know i'm not actually doing any of the designs and little coding of the static sites but I feel like I should be on a bit more at least?

I'm up north btw, Wakefield.

 

[Phaser]

Its hard to say because I'm not really sure what you do? I guess it would be termed as a junior designer, but you're not actually doing design :/

Yeah thats the problem...

To be honest i'm happy where I am, it's a mix of different jobs and my boss is a great guy but the money is awful and if I look at where i'l be in 5 years time I can't see any improvements.

I don't want to look around for "Web Designer" jobs because i've never done anything in Photoshop. I know bits and pieces from doing my own sites but not enough to do it day in day out as a job (and I don't think i'd want to).

Bit stuck where to go from here really....

Surely uni+degree isn't the only choice?