How much money does a inventor get for an average salary?

Answer 1

A salary is usually paid to a captive employee who exchanges his labor, in hours, for a fixed pay rate, hourly or annually.

If the person with the new idea works for an employer, then the employer may have the rights to the new idea.

An inventor typically is an entrepreneur who works for him or herself. The money they makes depends on what they invent, what the demand is for their idea, how much it costs to make and distribute and what price the public is willing to pay for it.

There are many new inventions that make their inventor no money because either the price to manufacture and distribute is more than the public will pay, or does not provide the inventor a reasonable expected profit for the risk that they take to patent and produce the product.

Most millionares are self employed, not employess of someone else.

"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door."