Salary surveys

• 2000 UPA member profile and salary survey
  "The goal of the 2000 Usability Professionals' Association (UPA) Member Profile and Salary Survey was to gather information that would enable the association to understand the make-up of the membership in order to ensure their needs are being met. The survey collected the following information about UPA members: who they are, where they work, what they do, salary."
  (Usability Professionals Association)

• 2004 salary survey (PDF)
  "This year, for the fi rst time, we've included results by employer as well as information on the types of technique in use today and a breakdown of salary by experience. Members of the Usability Professionals Association are, of course, entitled to the raw data so that they can conduct their own analysis."
  (Usability Professionals Association - UK Chapter)

• Salaries and benefits for information architects
  "The Argus Center for Information Architects received 229 responses to this survey, which ran from January 3 through January 10, 2001."
  (Argus Center for Information Architects)

• Salary survey 2003
  "This survey was conducted June 18-21, 2003. A total of 186 responses were collected. You can also download the full results including open-ended responses, a comma-delimited text file."
  (Information Architecture Institute)

• Salary survey reveals truth about UK usability market
  "Most people looking for the first time at the results of the UK Chapter's recent salary survey will rush to find out where they come on the overall pay scale. But the survey asked far more than just 'how much do you make' and because it was widely publicised and open to all, the results have some interesting things to say about the state of our industry."
  (Giles Colborne)

• Salary survey: user experience professionals 2001
  "Usability is a well-paying profession these days: A usability specialist in California with five years' experience had an estimated cash compensation of $90,118 a year in 2001, not counting stock options or other benefits. This number is at the high end of our detailed survey, which analyzes salary data from 1,078 professionals who attended the User Experience World Tour from November 2000 to April 2001. The survey respondents represent a response rate of 40% of the 2,682 conference attendees. Because we surveyed people at a high-end professional conference, the data probably reflects the salaries of good user experience professionals."
  (Jakob Nielsen - Nielsen Norman Group)

• Salary trends for usability professionals
  "Over the last several years, entry-level salaries have dropped, while pay for experienced usability staff has been more stable."
  (Jakob Nielsen - Alertbox)

• UPA UK salary survey shows £38,000 mean
  "The first UPA UK salary survey results show a range of £18,500 to £90,000 paid to British usability specialists, with a mean of £37,801 and a median of £35,000."
  (Ann Light - Usability News)

• Usability salary survey
  "Report outlining the results of a usability salary survey for usability, HCI and user experience design professionals in March/April 2004."
  (Tania Lang, Pabini Gabriel-Petit)