How much do you make as a UX Designer? 1. Years of exp? 2. Location? 3. Salary?
UX is like gambling. Some people make a lot of money. Most lose money trying.
What does this mean?
Wrong as fuck
Why don’t you go first
Location Maryland Experience 4 years Salary 100k
285k. TC 175 base + 110k rsu. Includes a 2x stock appreciation this year.
What's your YoE?
7 yoe San Jose $135k base
1 yoe SF $120k base
7 yoe Oklahoma $105k base
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15 yoe SF Bay Area $640k TC (includes significant stock appreciation over a number of years - I’m starting at a new company in a month or two and will be at $500k TC)
Epic. Any tips for how other designers with less experience can achieve this? So much of what we hear on this community is skewed towards Eng/Leetcode. Having a designer’s perspective would be very helpful for the rest of us as we plan our career trajectories 4yoe $185k TC NYC
I can try tho I was actually wildly unintentional about career for the first half of these 15 yoe but here are a couple thoughts: - early career I basically was the first designer at startups which meant it took me 2x as long to learn things than if I had others to model myself after, I’d do that differently - find a place that explicitly values individual contribution and has a well defined ic career path for designers. In the bay we take this for granted I think but it’s hard to find most places - interview performance was the most important predicate for good tc offers over my last five years. This isn’t all prep and polish but it’s also just going out a lot of places, because I get offers all over the map and I get leveled way differently from place to place