design salaries - a great link

[Kristopher]

http://www.designsalaries.org/

found it to be a good link. test it out.

[Yeldarb]

Wow, that's higher than I expected.

[Kristopher]

yeah. the lower 25% of designers around chicago earn $45,000. whoa.

[simplistik]

I'll tell you right now... that it lies. They always base those off of fortune 500 companies.

[Yeldarb]

I'll tell you right now... that it lies. They always base those off of fortune 500 companies.Fortune 500 companies with 2-9 employees?

[Kristopher]

good point. however when i first did it, my specifications were this:

2-9 employees (how many employees works for the firm i intern for)
web development / advertising and marketing (which is what i do)
Chicago area (i live in milwaukee, close enough)

and my results were: note enough data gathered to accurately display figures. retry.

...so ...simplisitk has a point: not many 2-9 employee firms were surveyed, im assuming.

[.soulty]

also take in note the privilages which smaller company's give like : phone bills, taxi covers.

your looking at prob around clearing $800 AUS a week after tax. so about 45 - 48 thousand (depending on skill level and years at company)would be prob the more correct wage for a 2-9 size company.

first year pay at a company like this is around 42-43 g (if your lucky)

[e-sarbak]

do you know where could ı get results for international works???

[DDD]

I am not totally sure this is reliable if based on surveys. There has to be a vicious curve to this. While this tool is still valuable I found discrepancies between it and www.salary.com which is basically the standard since it is based on actually numbers and not reported numbers.