salary negotiations
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- whodovoodoo
i am talking to a well known ad agency in the bay area and i am trying come up with a reasonable salary range/expectation. i'd be doing IA, with 2-3 years exp., also i'd be one of the only IA's in the building. is 90-100k a reasonable amount, considering all the factors involved (relocation as well)?
thanks!
- ok_not_ok0
ask for 115k, if they counter between 95k to 100k BITE!
- boobs0
The fuck is IA?
- ********0
attik are an ad agency?
- 100k for 2 years experience? good luck with that.********
- not attik.whodovoodoo
- so £50k ?psenso
- 100k for 2 years experience? good luck with that.
- whodovoodoo0
^i wish.
- ukit0
Sounds about right. I find that those survey sites tend to understate the salaries by a little bit. Good luck.
- monNom0
Information Architect and Interaction Designer are quite different job titles. Seems to me IA isn't particularily well rewarded... I think alistapart.com had a recent survey.
- refering to the indeed link.monNom
- looks like IA is more, look at the link beellloooowwww.whodovoodoo
- fleming0
These sites are showing a painfully low salary range. I don't know where they get their numbers from, but CD's making 110k? Never seen that.
- tOki0
Those sites make me feel used and abused. God I need a payrise.
- vaxorcist0
I've worked with IA's in previous gigs....
Some IA' were young, smart, and just did IA, purists if you will, they weren't paid that much, and their work was often changed radically down the road... their ideas were sometimes treated like disposable fodder... they were often working on another project when the first one was slowly being corrupted by the politics...
Some experienced IA's who were paid a lot more had the skills to:
1. do great IA, based on central insights into the users, NOT whatever the client wants to "just put on the website"
2. do great presentations, aware of the politics involved
3. sell the client on a warm fuzzy feeling
4. control the process of random ego-driven additions by people who feel the need to add something but don't have much to really add.So, somehow you have to convince them you're in the latter category, and that you're promotable, rather than disposable.
- ********0
65-85k, IA
85-105k,senior IA
105-115k, vp/IA