AIGA Design Educators Salary Survey

AIGA Design Educator Salary Survey 2007

AIGA Design Educators Survey of Design Salaries 2007 was published online in late-July 2007.

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Compensation is reported in terms of three statistics: the 25th percentile, the median (50th percentile) and the 75th percentile. The 25th percentile represents that value which is greater than 25 percent of all values; the median that value greater than 50 percent of all values, and so on.

 

Salary/wages overview

Position 25th % median 75th % Number responding
Full-time design educators $46,400 $54,100 $65,000 640
Full professors $60,000 $67,600 $85,000 143
Associate professors $52,000 $58,500 $68,000 165
Assistant professors $44,000 $49,400 $54,000 200
Other full-time faculty $41,000 $45,000 $54,000 85

 

About the Design Educator Salary Survey
The AIGA Design Educator Salary Survey is the most complete compensation data available for education professionals in the United States in the communication design disciplines; although there are other educator salary surveys, none differentiate this important and rapidly growing field of educators.

AIGA’s commitment to this survey is one element in an initiative to serve the design education community, through data on programs and curricula; grants and scholarships for researchers and students; building a strong community of design educators who can maintain a vital discourse going among themselves; a series of regional design education conferences; publishing critical thinking in Voice and through titles of the AIGA Design Press; and working with the education community to develop the standards by which college design programs will be judged. AIGA’s support for the education community takes the same form as the imperatives to which the professional association for design responds among professional designers: building community, sharing information, and developing both understanding and respect for the role of the communication designer.

AIGA’s success will depend upon the participation of design educators, both as engaged partners in AIGA’s activities and members. We hope that design educators will value this new source of information and will, at the same time, become a new part of a vital community of AIGA design educators.