The AIGA|Aquent Survey of Design Salaries is commissioned annually by AIGA, with the support of its partner, Aquent, AIGA’s official sponsor for professional development, and in cooperation with Communication Arts magazine. The salary survey is part of a comprehensive program of AIGA activities developed to serve the professional designer with strategies for success as well as sources of inspiration. AIGA is the principal source of information on the design economy.
AIGA|Aquent Survey of Design Salaries 2009
The 2009 survey draws from the largest pool to date of designers and others allied with the profession nationwide, and includes responses from more than 9,000 design professionals. The AIGA|Aquent survey is widely recognized as the most comprehensive annual survey of compensation data for the communication design profession in the United States. Visit www.designsalaries.org to use the interactive Salary Calculator.
In addition to the compensation data, this year’s survey includes essays written by design professionals offering Download the full survey (1.9 MB)
This article was last modified on January 6, 2023
This article was first published on June 22, 2009
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