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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
- 07/26/05 1 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.
- 11/15/04 1 Current Salaries in Landscape Architecture Median; Median range; & Federal employees (all levels), median for Landscape Architect, 15 Years Experience; Landscape Architect Principal/Owner; Urban and Regional Planning
- 07/12/04 Environmental Graphic Design Wields Growing Influence, Fees Environmental graphics may be a comparatively young design field, but its fees and prominence are growing.
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02/15/04
Metrics of Value: Measuring How Design Adds Up
Ambitious firms may claim all four as core values.
The important point is that to be successful, your firm needs to be distinguished in some way. What makes it special? What drives the bus? - 06/15/03 Museum Fees Stable to Slightly Down A sampling of firms working on art museums in the United States shows fee levels are stable to slightly down during this continuing recessional economy.
- 04/01/03 Don’t Lose Your Brain Trust Every office, large or small, has seen the collective firm IQ plummet when a key staffer moves on. The Accenture Institute for Strategic Change identified seven critical factors to handle losing key workers, as follows:
