Originally Posted by woj

you are looking at it wrong...

each designer does similar type work, so they all compete with each other... it's also a relatively easy trade to get into (at least to pickup basics), just need to get a $99 copy of student edition of photoshop and spend a day watching some tutorial videos and you are in business... so high competition, low barrier of entry, etc = low $$$

programming is exactly the opposite of that...