Product design TC expectations

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curburtc

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curburtc
Jan 25 213 Comments

Hey you beautiful Blinders,

I’m wondering what should be my salary expectations if I get an offer for a Sr level ux/product designer roles. Also, assuming I clear the interviews, should I come up with a number or let the recruiter tell first?

My tc expectation is around $380k - $400k. Is that high/low/about right? Any help/suggestions are appreciated.

Current tc - $190k
Yoe - 5.5 (L5)

Tia!


Update: Wow! This post gained more traction than I imagined. More importantly I’m impressed by the large numbers of civil, thoughtful and helpful discussions. Thank you so much 🙏🏽

My thoughts on the salary expectation after reading all the comments: While most of you commented that my expectations are high, I believe, as designers we must get paid almost as much as our SDE friends for the same level. Just because design is misunderstood or it looks like anyone can do it, doesn’t mean it’s easy. No Product can be truly successful with the engineering/design/product working alone. If impact is what a company cares about then everyone creating the impact must be compensated fairly and equally.

Let’s demand that we get paid what we deserve and not settle with the status quo.

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  • Meta
    6153

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    Airbnb
     6153
    Way too high. L5 offers at Meta are around 220-320k. Meta also expects designers to design end-to-end experiences with visual craft and polish, so many designers from Amazon get down-leveled due to low visual design skills.

    What you’re seeing on levels.fyi also include inflated salaries from stock growth.
    Jan 25 5
    • This. Also, hard to make an apples to apples comparison without knowledge on stock value at a given period of time upon Levels.fyi reporting. For example, FB recently had a 20% correction, and would factor this into the stock grants looking fwd. Personally was more than happy with this discount rate factored in.
      Jan 28
    • Meta
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      @xjsx43, You’re right, I don’t think OP is as senior as they think they are with the way they are thinking lol.

      @NEVK44, That’s true. I joined FB during the pandemic, so I got cheap covid crash stock. My TC before the market correction was over 400k, so if you join during a cheap time, you also get more equity. For example every L5 offer may get $300k worth of stock over 4 years, but you end up getting more RSUs if you join when the stock is valued at a lower amount. It’s just a perk of joining a company when the stock is undervalued.
      Jan 29
  • New / Design
    kalinux

    New Design

     kalinux
    Jesus here I am full stack designer/engineer with 10 years UI/UX making 115k TC, I need to find a new job 😂

    Good shit curburtc!! Hope you land it higher elsewhere 💰
    Jan 28 9
    • Amazon
      curburtc

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      @kalinux There’s plenty of money and space in the world for everyone! I hope you find a job that pays what you deserve. Good luck!
      Jan 29
    • Padi
      DqHC67

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      DqHC67
      I’m seeing low 200’s base with another $100k or so in stock for senior roles at non-tiered tech.
      Jan 30
  • Scale AI
    toomanysli

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    toomanysli
    It’s a little high, but do you.
    Jan 25 0
  • Amazon
    pYlrt

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    pYlrt
    If you’re an L5 UXD Amazon, you will get down leveled at most FAANG but higher tc.
    Jan 25 33
    • Amazon
      shoul

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      shoul
      What you’re saying would have been more legitimate if you weren’t working at Facebook. Lol again it’s comparing lesser of two evils :/
      Jan 31
    • Amazon
      HC745AT

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      HC745AT
      @favepho So if media reports stuff about Facebook it’s distortion, but when you get the information about Amazon from the same media, it’s somehow fact?

      WA state min wage is $14.49/hr. Warehouse associates are paid $18.49/hr. It’s not called slavery if people go in to work of their own choice and they get paid for their efforts. If you are so concerned about the lives of the warehouse workers, stop using Amazon, Walmart, Home Depot or any other big store because guess what genius, they’re all doing the same job and getting paid more or less the same. Amazon turns out to be more efficient because it also scaled too fast by comparison. For someone like you sitting on a $3000 Herman Miller chair in an air conditioned room the work people do in the warehouse can appear like slavery, but that’s the livelihood of millions of people who work day and night to make sure you get your boxes on time. Be grateful and learn to empathize.

      You were smart enough to get hired at Meta. This shouldn’t be too hard to deduce.
      Feb 1
  • Way too high imo. 6 yoe. You're looking at 300.
    Jan 25 0