Feb 19 2007
Indian User Experience professionals salary survey 2006 by UPA
The Usability Professionals Association (UPA)’s Hyderabad chapter recently did a good survey on the demographics, experience levels, and salaries of User Experience (UX) professionals in India, primarily across the metro cities. The results of this survey are available for download here.
While the number of respondents was limited to a few hundred, the survey is interesting for several reasons. First, it is one of the only recent surveys on UX professional compensation in India. Second, the numbers indicate that technology companies and UX consulting houses are getting competitive and offering UX professionals much higher salaries than even a few years back. While it arguable whether this is because Indian or international technology companies see the business value of UX more clearly, or because the Indian market is fairly heated at this point (Average 15% raises, average 20% attrition in the IT industry), the availability of these numbers is a step in the right direction. Third, this salary also indicates that the UX industry in India is showing signs of maturing and the availability of world class UX technical and management talent continues to increase.
I wonder if a similar survey has been done for China. I should probably check with my friend Jason Huang, who heads UPA China, on how similar these numbers are to Chinese UX salaries in pure dollar figures.
