Here’s a bit of a recap from the materials we looked at in class:
Some statistics related to salaries:
From Core77:
2011 Core77 Salary Survey
From the Bureau of Labor and Statistics
Overview of Wage Data by Area and Occupation
Craft Artists
Artists and Related Workers
Commercial and Industrial Designers
Architect
From Jobs-Salary.com
Job Title: Furniture Designer
Job Title: Junior Designer
Job Title: Architect I
Employer: Williams Sonoma
Employer: Karim Rashid
Employer: Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
Employer: fuse project and fuseproject
From Salary.com
Job Details and Salary Wizard for Industrial Designer I
Job Details and Salary Wizard for Architect I
From Salary Expert:
Average base salary for Furniture Designer in New York, NY
Average base salary for Industrial Designer in New York, NY
Average base salary for Graphic Designer in New York, NY
Average base salary for Commercial Designer in New York, NY
Product Designer Salaries by region
Architect Salaries by region
Furniture Designer Salaries by region
Industrial Designer Salaries by region
On Saving and investing:
Starting at 25 vs. starting at 35. from Darwin’s Finance
The Benefits of Saving Early, from Callan Associates
Wikipedia: 401K
Wikipedia: IRA
And here is an article from the New York Times about Negotiating in a recession.
