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How many wedding photographers are there in the US?
How to approach it
Go from weddings per year to how many weddings one photographer can shoot in a year.
How a strong answer opens
“I'll go from weddings per year to how many weddings one photographer can shoot in a year, then adjust for part-timers.”
Outline of a strong answer
Try answering out loud for a few minutes before you open this.
- Estimate weddings per year from population and marriage rate
- Share hiring a professional photographer
- Weddings one photographer covers per year (weekends, season)
- Divide weddings by weddings per photographer
- Adjust for part-timers who shoot only a few weddings a year
- Sanity-check: photographers per mid-sized city
Where this question usually goes wrong
Forgetting that most weddings fall on weekends in a few months of the year, which caps how many one photographer can shoot.
Learn the method
Worked cases 1 to 4 in Module 3, Estimation.
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