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I guess I hesitate to bring it up with them because we did part ways on decent terms and I didn't want to risk messing that up. Unfortunately this employer made a practice of assigning inappropriate titles to people- senior designers were "VP of Design" and so on. I guess you could call it the "carrot dangling" management technique? In my case I was moved into Art Director position from a junior designer position in my first year. I was excited to have the title so didn't fight for an AD's salary happy with having a normal pay bump. But I realized later it was unwise once I was pulling the long hours, traveling and carrying a lot more responsibility then I was being paid for. When I was given the design director title after 4 years I was finally making senior designer pay so I can see why they would put that on the letter. Seems pretty dishonest to me but what do I know. I think the big realization I had with the economy woes, watching my agency lose so much work and having to look for a job now is that money comes and goes, but working with good people under professional/honest circumstances is really important. Thank you for your advice all, some good things to think about.