Study Finds Compensation Ticks Upward for Designers and Architects

Well, with the news of the big names letting employees go, massive country-wide layoffs, and lots about fewer and fewer available projects, we’ll gladly take any news that’s even slightly positive. So it is with the just-released DesignIntelligence Compensation and Benefits Survey, which found that designers and architects are still being compensated well and, most surprisingly, better paid than they were at this same point in 2008, with slight to average inflation depending on the position, experience, and education, as such:

The survey shows that the average compensation figures continue to march upward for recent architecture school grads. The mean salary for a graduate with a Bachelor of Architecture degree, for example, has risen from $39,333 in 2008 to $41,012 in 2009. The mean salary for a graduate with a Master of Architecture degree has risen from $42,985 to $47,263.

So good news for those who have jobs, but with fewer and fewer positions to go around, you just sorta have to take what you can get in the happy department.

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