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2012 Salary Survey

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Salary Survey 2008 Comments


4. Which of the following job titles best represents your current position? (PLEASE be flexible and consider one from our list before you resort to "Other." Closeness is worth more to us than absolute accuracy.

Other:

1. Manager of User Research (though I was really doing a Director position)
2. User Researcher
3. Director
4. Senior Experience Architect
5. Compliance Officer
6. Intranet Advisor
7. Interaction Designer-Consultant
8. Talent Acquisition Consultant
9. IA - search/metadata specialist
10. Instructional Technologist, including some IA+usability work
11. Remote Services Librarian
12. Director of User Experience
13. Manager - IA, Program Management, Operations
14. Taxonomist



8. If you are a consultant, what is the average hourly rate you charged in 2008 (amounts converted to US Dollars)?

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Raw Data:

1. 50
2. $60
3. Usually flat rate for single research projects (typically $12-15K to run 6-12 participants in 1-hour sessions) OR $120/hr OR $1000/day
4. 65
5. 27.00
6. $250.00
7. 25
8. 1500
9. 80
10. Note: need to let you know I am now a part time employee & pay decrease was a prorata-ed amount
11. 1600
12. 150.00
13. $87.00
14. $350
15. 87.70
16. $135
17. 110
18. 160
19. $55
20. 200.00
21. 165
22. 465
23. 160
24. 165
25. $125
26. 40
27. $146
28. n/a
29. 75.00
30. 100
31. $135
32. 210
33. 100
34. 125
35. $130
36. 195
37. $250
38. $150
39. 85
40. 125
41. $85.00
42. 85
43. I think the company charged $125 but I don't see that as I'm an employee
44. 100.00
45. 100
46. $85
47. $100.00
48. 90
49. 75
50. 85
51. 35
52. 70.00
53. $165
54. $105
55. 190
56. 125
57. 50-75
58. $40.00
59. 120
60. $110
61. $50
62. 150
63. $120.00
64. 150
65. 65
66. 80.00
67. $205
68. n/a
69. 78
70. 1,300
71. 78
72. 107
73. 850
74. 100
75. 95
76. $80
77. 12.5
78. 150
79. 80
80. 75,00
81. 53.50
82. $64
83. 22
84. 120
85. 150 an hour bill rate, not a contractor - consultant within a consultancy
86. 70
87. 50
88. $75
89. 65.00
90. 55
91. $115
92. 100
93. 235
94. 800
95. $135
96. 189.00
97. $125
98. $125
99. 45
100. 150-175
101. $125.



11. If you answered "Other" in the previous question, please let us know what kind of activity you perform.

1. Report writing, writing proposals (lots of those, probably 4 proposals written that go nowhere for each 1 that results in a client), business development (website, marketing, sales, lead generation), professional activities (review papers, mentor, get mentored, read professionals journals/websites/podcasts)
2. Presentations, promoting user-centered design and new processes to company, staff evaluations/management/mentoring, attempting to hire new staff (2 hrs/week - very difficult in the SF Bay area), staff meetings, building usability lab; I have very jr staff and they require a lot of training/oversight
3. Prototype programming
4. Content Strategy
5. content and taxonomy governance
6. Run, cycling, movies
7. product management
8. Project & office admin
9. Contribute to strategic planning, analytics, management of KM, enterprise IA and information management activities (some managed by my team, some managed by others)
10. Interface design (wireframes, site maps)
11. Mentoring, Department Strategic Planning
12. information design
13. Product development support (e.g, working with software engineering team) AND Requirements documentation
14. As a Director, I do much less design than I used to and much more strategy and team management
15. business development, sales
16. integration analysis and ui ux advice
17. business development
18. Writing, training, speaking
19. People management
20. These tasks overall considerably; the above is hard to answer.
21. Building wireframes, prototypes and business analysis
22. general admin & email
23. Web Team Management
24. wireframes, client meetings, sitemaps, manage IA staff
25. sales/new business development
26. recruiting
27. human factors and usability inout
28. Sales and Marketing
29. Business development; Leading workshops; Professional writing
30. Instructional design, faculty support for online teaching
31. Documentation
32. process development
33. instruction
34. Web and search analytics
35. usability consulting, SEO
36. product development & strategy
37. Business Management/HR/Accounting/etc
38. Marketing Analysis
39. Account Planning
40. HR
41. prototyping
42. thought leadership
43. I manage a variety of teams, including an IA team. Much of my work is not necessarily IA related.
44. accessibility
45. management
46. wireframes, site maps, etc.
47. Do you consider prototyping Interaction Design?
48. Stakeholder research & discovery
49. CYA



14. Does your job provide any of the following benefits? (check all that apply) Other:

1. stock grant (not options)
2. Can work from home and on the road (with Skype and email, location no longer important) AND (oh, joy) I NEVER stop working and work while on family vacations!!! (oh the joy of running your own business!)
3. Holidays and sick leave are combined into PTO (personal time off) and are 5 weeks together; free hot beverages, espresso machines & milk, and subsidized soft drinks
4. Travel Agency Association Membership
5. Conferences, & free beverages ;-)
6. two weeks paid leave over standard entitlement. (Also please note Australia has universal free health care and it is not normally included in pay).
7. Language study reimbursement
8. ticket restaurant
9. Optional salary sacrifice for various fringe benefits eg computer purchase, theatre subscriptions
10. happy hours
11. FSA CONTRIBUTION
12. Paternity Leave
13. museum membership, great parties
14. parking
15. discount/group savings programs, referral/concierge services, CARE counseling services, travel assistance/insurance, pre-tax commuter vouchers, legal services
16. well-stocked kitchen; weekly onsite massages; monthly onsite chiropractor; yearly onsite wellness exam; beer thirty
17. professional memberships
18. free food
19. Carer's leave
20. Lunch money (cash, not vouchers)
21. Long Service Leave 13 weeks paid leaver after 7 years, pension plan is government requirement, all the books I can read (work in a Library)
22. Conference Reimbursement, book reimbursement
23. Bus pass
24. 3 bonus holidays a year
25. Rideshare
26. conference/education budget
27. employee discount on products; employee clubs
28. in office meals daily
29. 1 Yearly Professional Conference



21. If you work near a major metropolitan area, what is the name of this city?

Number Of Respondents   Metropolitan Area
46
42
26
20
20
19
19
15
13
13
9
9
7
7
6
6
6
6
5
4
4
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1		   SF Bay Area
New York, NY
washington, dc
London, UK
Seattle, WA
Los Angeles, CA
Sydney, Australia
Chicago, IL
Atlanta, GA
Philadelphia
Austin, TX
B oston
Madrid
Toronto
Dallas/Ft Worth
Detroit, MI
Minneapolis, MN
Portland, Oregon
Melbourne
Pittsburgh
San Jose/San Francisco
Denver, CO
Houston, TX
Ottawa
Perth
Richmond, VA
Amsterdam
Baltimore, Maryland
Berlin
Canberra
Istanbul
Jacksonville FL
Kansas City
Miami - Fort Lauderdale
Milwaukee
Recife, Brazil
San Antonio
São Paulo
Vancouver
Bangalore
Bogotá, Colombia
Brighton
Brisbane
Calgary
Charlotte
chipping norton
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Cologne
Columbus, Ohio
Curitiba
Dayton, OH
Dublin 3
Flint. MI
Frankfurt, Germany
Glasgow
Herndon
Madison
Medellin
Montreal
Mumbai
Orlando, FL
O xford
Paris
Pasadena
Providence
Raleigh, NC
Roma
Salisbury
silverspring
Singapore
Sofia
St. Paul, MN
Tacoma
Tokyo
Victoria, BC
Zurich

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