Every few years the Design Institute of Australia (DIA) carries out a national survey to benchmark and compare Australian designers’ fees and salaries.
This simple task provides the DIA and its members with a critical snapshot of salary trends in the profession. It also allows DIA members (and other designers) to reliably compare their income to others working in the same or different design categories.
This is an important part of being in business. Every designer knows, that what your design skills are worth – based on qualifications, experience and talent – and what you can charge for them, do not always match.
A multitude of different factors will influence whether you’re being paid what you’re actually worth – and the DIA’s Fees and Salary Survey will give you invaluable information to help determine exactly where you are (or should be) standing in the spectrum.
The survey goes out to more than 8,000 designers and design businesses around Australia, with a comprehensive analysis of results done on the data collected.
Surveys can be submitted online or a printable pdf downloaded. If returned by 15 December 2013, survey results will be sent as a thanks whether or not you are a DIA member.
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