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Salary SurveysIT
Salary Info Job
Listings
Certification Preparing
a Resume
Related Topics
Academic Programs
IA Wiki maintains a list of salary surveys by date conducted
IA Institue (AIFIA) 2003 Salary Survey - 186 information architects
2004 Salary Survey of IIT (Illinois Institute of Technology) Alumni - 90 recent graduates, with some historical trends data
Monster.com 2002
Salary Survey
Includes European statistics and other useful career-planning guides
STC
Salary Surveys
Annual salary surveys of technical communicators from 1997
- 2002 from the Society for Technical Communications
AIGA/Aquent
Survey of Design Salaries 2001
Mostly graphic design and art direction, but includes content developers
and web designers
WinWriters
Salary Survey 2001
An annual survey of compensation for help developers. Results
for the 2000 survey
are also online
Salaries
and Benefits for Information Architects
ACIA - Argus Center for Information Architecture, January
2001
Nielsen-Norman
Salary Survey
A survey of attendees at the World Tour events, 2000-2001
UPA
2000 Member and Salary Survey
The survey was conducted from Nov. 9, 2000 to Dec. 15, 2000.
A total of 573 UPA members responded to the survey; 540 respondents provided
salary information.
CHI-WEB
Listserv Posting
A compilation from October 2000
SIGCHI
Salary Survey Results
Published at CHI '98
1997
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Salary Survey
A detailed demographics and salary survey of the Human Factors
and Engineering Society membership. $35 for non-members of HFES
Graphic
Artists Guild Pricing and Ethical Guidelines
This book, available for sale as an e-book, includes sample contracts
and other information as well as pricing guidelines.
Salary.com Salary
Wizard
Search for salary ranges by job title and location, using detailed
categories and sub-categories. Usability classifications are scattered,
but you can get a good idea of salary ranges for an area. Try "Internet
and New Media" as the job category
Economic
Research Institute
ERI sells high end salary survey, compensation and cost of living
database software. Their website also provides links to information including
free access to many worldwide salary survey sources.
SalaryExpert -
Free Salary Information
SalaryExpert offers free salary data and compensation information for
individuals, human resource professionals, and consultants.
These salary info sites do not specifically address usability, interface design, technical communication or information architecture. They are included here as useful comparative information about IT salaries
Dice.com
Salary information from a placement company. Includes a variety
of different contractual and employment options to search on.
STC Jobs Bank
National database of technical communications jobs, including
some in design, web, and usability. Access to job listings for members
only.
UPA
Job Bank
Fees required to list a job, but available to all to read.
CHI-JOBS Email
List
Sign up for this email list or browse the archives for job notices in
interface design and usability
HFES Placement
Service
Fees required to list a job
There is no current general certification in HCI or usability, but these links might be helpful to anyone interested in the issue.
Board of Certification in Professional
Ergonomics
The BCPE certifies practitioners of ergonomics,
not ergonomics researchers or ergonomics theoreticians. Associated
with HFES
International Board of Standards
for Training, Performance, and Instruction
The board develops competency standards for professions including instructional
designers, trainers, training managers.
AIGA
Standards of Professional Practice
A code of ethics and practice
The AIGA Experience Design Education and Modeling Working Group is studying
"criteria for an appropriate education in interaction design"
NASAD
- National Association of Schools of Arts and Design
An accreditation group
Certification
for Information Brokers by Deborah C. Sawyer
An article on certification efforts in a related field from the ASIS Bulletin
Report
from the UP Certification Project
In 2002, the UPA and other organizations ran a project to investigate
certification for usability professionals. The work of that group, including
a 900+ response survey on attitudes about certification are available.
Building Blocks
to a Body of Knowledge: To Certify or Not to Certify
by Whitney Quesenbery in
Usability Interface, August 2002.
A summary of the UP Certification Project
Preparing
Resumes and Other Articles
How Do You Determine Your Rate? - Dana Chisnell, Idea Market 2005
Training and Development: Guidelines for an Effective Resume and Portfolio by Tessa Johnson in Usability Interface, October 2002
Judy Blostein Earns a Masters by Judy Blostein in Usability Interface, October 2002
eResumes: Everything You Need to Know About Using Electronic Resumes to Tap into Today's Hot Job Market Reviewed by Jeff Staples in Usability Interface January 2003. eResumes provides something for all e-resume developers. If you don’t have an electronic resume, you should be able to find out all you need to know to create one.
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