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2008-2009 DesignIntelligence Compensation and Salary Survey
More than 18,000 staff are represented in the survey data collected from more than 400 leading architecture and design office locations in January and February 2008.
Articles
- 04/20/06 Compensation Survey Methodology 2006-2007 In January and February of 2006 the Design Futures Council and DesignIntelligence surveyed leading firms believed to be “best practices” in the architecture, engineering, and design fields.
- 04/20/06 Adapting to Talent Shortages and Changing Compensation Trends Supply and demand economics are affecting a great majority of the professional firms in the AEC marketplace. Many of the worlds leading firms are getting more aggressive on salary offerings and are putting into place innovative profit sharing models.
- 04/20/06 DesignIntelligence Leadership Roundtable on Compensation Trends This leadership roundtable is focused on compensation policy and trends. Each of the firms selected have recently been cited for innovative advancements in the AEC industry and have recruited and retained top talent. Their combined staffing is over 5,100 employees.
- 09/26/05 Designer Compensation: How Important is Money, Really? As the economy grows stronger and the range of new work expands, there is a renewed focus on the importance of attracting and retaining qualified staff. In the scramble to attract and keep top talent, compensation once again becomes a much-discussed topic for both employers and employees.
- 09/08/05 Firms Report Fees, Profits Edging Up This headline is not a mistake. *DesignIntelligence* is currently conducting research on the growth rates at several hundred firms in the United States and Canada.
- 07/26/05 Redesign Your Profits: Value-Based Fee Structure A brutal fact of reality for architecture and engineering firms is that prevailing pricing and compensation methods—setting fees on the basis of direct labor cost (whether selling hours on a time-and-materials or lump-sum basis)—provide only minimal profits for most firms.
- 03/21/05 Footnotes on Compensation Trends From the 2005 Architecture Compensation Survey.
- 03/21/05 Architectecture Compensation Survey: By the Numbers Significant numbers and facts from our architecture compensation survey.
- 03/21/05 The Future Demands Meritocracy: Reward Your Top Performers Architecture, engineering, and design firms spend more than $20 billion in the U.S. alone on salaries and benefits. All too often we pay the same salary for very different levels of talent—and service.
- 03/21/05 Navigating the Most Complex Human Resource Dilemmas It’s time to evolve the “Human Sacrifice Department” into “Human Prosperity Department” within the architectural firm.
