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2012 UX Work and Salary Survey The Canadian Edition Meghan Deutscher & Laura Ballay Periscope User Experience www.periscopeux.com
February 26th, 2013
About Us
We are two User Experience Designers who, one year ago, decided to join forces as Periscope UX. The past year we spent a lot of 9me learning how to market ourselves and establishing a clientele – it’s been a HUGE learning experience. During our careers here in Vancouver, there have always been a few pieces of the puzzle we felt were lacking:
Where is UX happening in Canada? And in what industries?
What design services and skills are sought aRer?
What is reasonable compensa9on?
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Survey Goal
Gather up-‐to-‐date informaAon about the state of user experience jobs in Canada to help all professionals understand the landscape and opportuniAes in Canada and how they can posiAon themselves in the UX market.
Learn about:
Who we are & our experience
The companies we work for
What we do at work
How we find work
How we’re compensated
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2012 UX Work and Salary Survey
The Work and Salary Survey
Canada-wide Survey sent out to UX groups in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, OXawa and Montreal
25 Questions Online survey ran November 2012
159 Responses From a (very rough) pool of 800
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2012 UX Work and Salary Survey
26 – 30 years old
20%
Who Responded? Demographics 5
51% Male, 49% Female Predominantly 26 – 45 years old
49% from Vancouver 18% Toronto 18% Calgary 15% Other Canadian Ci9es
6% Over 50
17% 36 - 40
26% 31 - 35
10% 46 - 50
41 - 45
5% 21 - 25
17%
2012 UX Work and Salary Survey
Who Responded? Education
Graphic Design Communica9on Design Informa9on Design Computer Science UX Courses & Workshops Human Factors Mul9-‐/Digital/New Media Engineering IT / Development
Interac9ve Design Fine Arts HCI Business / Management Info & Library Sciences Industrial Design Psychology Wri9ng / Publishing
Arts Architecture Marke9ng Sciences Web Design Educa9on Interac9on Design Anthropology
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2012 UX Work and Salary Survey
46% Bachelor’s Degree, 32% Master’s Degree 7% Cer9ficate Program, 6% Some graduate school, 4% Junior College
Who Responded? Experience 7
2012 UX Work and Salary Survey
9%
36% 40%
12%
3%
Entry Level Mid Level Senior Senior Management, VP or Director
Execu9ve, President, or
Owner
Over 10 years 6 -‐ 10 years 3 -‐ 5 years 0 -‐ 2 years
45% UX Designer, 12% Interaction Designer, 10% Information Architect 6% Consultant, < 5% each: UI/Interface Designer, Web Designer, User Researcher…
25% SoRware Company 18% Design Agency 18% Consul9ng Firm 13% Consumer Products 10% Service company
Company types
Companies & Products 8
2012 UX Work and Salary Survey
Mobile Applications
75%
40% Desktop Software
62% Web applications / SaaS
23% Social Media
Intranets
76% Websites
37% Prevalent Sizes
33% -‐ 1000+ employees, 14% -‐ 51-‐200
Clients 30% internal, 37% external, 33% both
Others: Physical Products, Public Kiosks. Entertainment Systems, etc. Average number of product types: 3.5
Self-Employment 9
2012 UX Work and Salary Survey
35% 30%
65% 70%
Self-‐Employed Freelance
Men Women
90% of freelancers and 77% of the self-‐employed have 9+ years of experience.
11% Self-employed, 6% Freelance
Most have been at current job for 5 years or less (88%)
Time Spent 10
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Less than 30 7%
30-‐40 hours 42%
40-‐50 hours 47%
Over 50 4%
Hours worked per week
1-‐3 years is the most common length of 9me (42%).
Tasks
Performed Frequently Wireframing and sitemaps (71%)
Interac9on design (66%)
User flow and scenario development (48%)
Prototyping (41%)
Strategic work (39%)
User research (48%)
Persona development / audience defini9ons (47%)
Heuris9c analysis / Review (44%)
Usability tes9ng (42%)
User flow / scenario development (40%)
Evangelizing / public speaking (39%)
Graphic / visual design (43%)
Content genera9on / copywri9ng (37%)
Design templates / style guides (33%)
Accessibility review (27%)
Usability tes9ng (25%)
Content inventory (25%)
Performed Occasionally Reviewed or Delegated
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2012 UX Work and Salary Survey
On average respondents perform 5-6 tasks frequently and 7-8 occasionally
Finding Work 12
2012 UX Work and Salary Survey
LinkedIn is the most widely used to find UX jobs and contracts (46% of respondents use often)
Other methods used by < 11%: IxDA, Placement Agencies, Internal Recruiters, etc.
Friends/word-of-mouth is the most effective way to find work (46%) Followed by: 28% networking 13% online ads 9% social media 4% online poroolio & job fairs
Salary
Average Salary: $89,095
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Salary by Gender 14
2012 UX Work and Salary Survey
Average salary for women: $81,731; for men: $96,276
21 -‐ 25 26 -‐ 30 31 -‐ 35 36 -‐ 40 41 -‐ 45 46 -‐ 50 51 -‐ 55 56 -‐ 60 Over 65
Men Women
Salary by Gender 15
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Gap due to age distribution?
AGE RANGE WOMEN MEN Average Salary # Respondents Average Salary # Respondents
21-‐25 $48,750 4 $56,250 4
26-‐30 $67,028 18 $86,254 13
31-‐35 $77,375 24 $91,625 16
36-‐40 $80,083 12 $103,719 15
41-‐45 $94,944 9 $110,944 18
46-‐50 $123,500 6 $104,700 10
Over 50 $112,000 5 $72,500 4
Salary by Gender 16
2012 UX Work and Salary Survey
Gap due to experience levels? Possibly…
EXPERIENCE LEVEL WOMEN MEN Average Salary # Respondents Average Salary # Respondents
Entry Level $53,00 10 $55,260 5
Mid Level $73,100 35 $77,061 21
Senior $95,611 27 $101,097 36
Management, etc. $136,250 4 $121,867 15
Exec., Owner, etc. $80,000 2 $113,333 3
Salary by Level of Education 17
2012 UX Work and Salary Survey
Average salary for Bachelor’s: $89,494; Master’s: $88,647
EDUCATIONAL LEVEL % RESPONDENTS AVERAGE SALARY
High School Degree 3% $80,875
Junior College 4% $85,500
Cer9ficate Program 7% $87,545
Bachelor’s Degree 46% $89,494
Some graduate school 6% $83,667
Master’s Degree 32% $88,647
Doctorate Degree / Post-‐Doc 3% $112,000
Hourly Rates 18
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Average Hourly Rate: $87 Based on rates received from 34.6% of respondents
Minimum: $30; Maximum: $180
0
50
100
150
200
Hourly Rates
Hourly Rates 19
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How are people paid?
59% paid only by hourly rate 5% by project / flat rate 7% by daily rate
29% by some combina9on of the above
Hourly Rates by Gender & Experience 20
2012 UX Work and Salary Survey
Average hourly rate for women: $84; for men: $90 Based on rates provided by 25 women and 28 men.
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE % RESPONDENTS AVERAGE HOURLY
Under 1 year 2% $30
1 -‐ 2 13% $53
3 -‐ 5 15% $57
6 -‐ 8 9% $91
9 -‐ 10 19% $96
Over 10 years 42% $106
Thank You 21
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Questions, comments or feedback?
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VanUE, CalUX, UX Edmonton, Uxirregulars, the OXawa, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver IxDA chapters, @UXcampOXawa, and all those who responded to the survey!
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