Comments on: America and India: Strange skew in designer salaries http://amitpande.com/2007/08/21/america-and-india-strange-skew-in-designer-salaries/ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:02:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: SteveJB http://amitpande.com/2007/08/21/america-and-india-strange-skew-in-designer-salaries/#comment-2814 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:15:19 +0000 http://amitpande.com/2007/08/21/america-and-india-strange-skew-in-designer-salaries/#comment-2814 Its more about how much a newcomer to interaction design is willing to accept as the starting salary (especially if they don't have details on how advanced the job is and think its just another part time job) Lack of information on how much one can ask for as a new designer leads to a low asking salary. There are outsourcing companies out there who would employ an XD (experience/interaction designer) in India at just 5 USD an hour (It happened to me till 3 weeks after starting, I found out that XD work is worth 24 USD an hour no matter where in the world one is located.) Its more about how much a newcomer to interaction design is willing to accept as the starting salary (especially if they don’t have details on how advanced the job is and think its just another part time job)

Lack of information on how much one can ask for as a new designer leads to a low asking salary. There are outsourcing companies out there who would employ an XD (experience/interaction designer) in India at just 5 USD an hour (It happened to me till 3 weeks after starting, I found out that XD work is worth 24 USD an hour no matter where in the world one is located.)

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