I'm curious about the factors that influence the salary range for design heads in various industries. Can anyone share insights or experiences on how these decisions are made?

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How do companies determine the salaries for design heads?- Grapevine

It's been a year and a half since I began my career as a User experience designer at a product company (my first job). The startup I work at has not started generating revenue yet.. and is running on the funds raised in the pre-seed round. The founders are an amazing bunch of people and so is the team. I'm super happy working here, but the only thing I would like is a salary raise since my salary hasn't been revised since I joined. My current CTC is 5 LPA and I own ESOPs worth approx 2L. All of us at the office are close knit and this makes having the salary revision conversation even harder.. how do I initiate a conversation about this and not feel awkward?

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UX/UI Designer

Theres a salary progression thread for everyone, but I suspect most of them are developers.

Let's hear from the designers.

Whats been your salary progression so far as a designer?

Salary progression: Designers

Product Designer

Hi guys, I am in my final year of college and will be starting at Ford as a SWE (which I am grateful for considering the job market). However, in the past few weeks UI/UX has really peaked my interest. Since my teenage, I really loved computers but wasn't really sure what I loved about them so I studied Computer Science at uni.

How can I switch my careers now? Also, wanted to know about salaries in this field (not a priority but definitely weighs in decision making as someone from middle class).

Considering shifting from SWE to Product Design

I'm interviewing a company, where one round is rapid prototyping round? I have never given this round earlier? Even though they are saying it's figma understanding, ui analysis round. But due to unfamiliarity I'm asking in the community.

Few things I'm looking for -
1. What will be the evaluation criteria?
2. What kind of brief they might give?
3. What things do I need to do?

Anything related advice.

TIA.

What you need to do in a rapid prototyping round?

Product Manager

Hey guys, please let me know what is the range to ask for a lead designer role with 7.5 years of experience.

Lead Designer salary!

Market Research

Which companies are giving above 14 LPA base salaries to entry level product designers? If you know, please comment!

Hi, i have been working outside India for the last 5 years, so am not sure of what to enter as expected salary for senior leadership roles in design. Any insights would be great!

Product designer salaries

Hello
I have been working as a developer for almost 3 years now. I have been pursuing design at side and want to transition to design as career (UX/product design roles).

Need help on navigating roles and salaries from anyone who has transitioned/seen someone transition and has knowledge on this.
1. Apply for entry level roles or senior roles?
2. How to navigate salary discussions ( if recruiter says since this is your first design job we can only pay entry level salary X which is less than my current salary as a dev)?

Salary expectation in Dev to Design transition

Mostly so called "Design Leaders" "mentors" are always spewing gyaan in my office, LinkedIn, social media but actually fail to implement those stuff. Every other week we have this call where designers are supposed to talk about a topic and every designer comes with such complex presentations, use big words as if they are saving the world or something. They unnecessarily complicate such simple topics and then go on to call themselves designers 🤡

Why are product designers so pretentious?

Hey folks,

After 7 years as a Graphic Designer, I've spent the last 3 years in the realm of Product Design. I'm currently working as a freelancer, helping an established startup build a mobile application from scratch.

What would you recommend as a fair monthly rate for someone with my background and expertise?

Seeking advice on monthly rates as a freelance designer

Hi Grapevine,

I am currently applying to Enterprise / SaaS organisations in Bengaluru and getting confused when trying to benchmark my level against different companies as they all use different employee leveling scales.

This is getting to be an issue as the salary range is generally benchmarked to the level of the open position and I'm unable to reply confidently to the recruiters on my salary expectations.

My most recent position was as a Senior Lead UX Designer in an IT Services company.

I was leading teams of 3-5 UX and UI designers for end-to-end design engagements and my clients were large MNCs including a fortune 50 pharma giant. I was also involved in training and evaluating associate designers and expected to contribute to design proposals for potential clients.

Any advice or pointers on how you figured out your own experience and employee level accurately would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

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YOE: 5
TC: 21.5L

What is my Designer Level?

My team is hiring an international freelance designer. I need to share a budget for this designer. If you have hired or worked as a freelance UI/UX designers can you please recommend a salary range for a senior designer with 5-7 years of experience. How much budget should I keep 
1. for a month long commitment 
2. for hourly work

Thank you.

Salaries for freelance ux/ui designers

So I'm looking for entry level product design roles lately and no one seems to have any budget smh, the salaries are around 5 LPA everywhere.

What should I be expecting from an entry level role?

Also, any leads would be really appreciated😭

Entry Level Product Design Role Salaries

So I have been doing freelancing from quite some time and have worked on web apps and mobile applications which were completely under me, client just brought the rough ideas of the product they were looking for and so I worked from scratch on those, although I was on learning stage still managed to deliver big projects alone. So I wanted to know does this count as product designer? Or still it will be just UI/UX designer? 
Also I am planing to join a company as full time how much salary can I ask them? Like I have around 2 years of experience although all were freelance projects. I have experience in designing modern UI websites to multi featured mobile apps, web apps and logos. 
If I go for interview how much can I ask in salary?

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