hi,
may have a job oppportunity in new york. how much should a designer with 7 years experience be asking in NY - in the UK im on 32K and would look for more but im also aware that im a rare offer and will bring new skills to the company.
serious answers please.
thanks
i’m guessing you’re talking about £32k british pounds… so in dollars… $63000.
according to the coroflot salary survey on average a senior designer in new-england region makes approx. $67000 and for a creative director $93000
as for the IDSA compensation study (north-east)
creative: $89000
senior: $70000
good lookin out.
nice folio btw.
thanks. may i ask what line of work you’re in?
product, fmcg and branding are my skills.
Are yout talking about New York City or New York State? There is a big difference there.
With 7 years of experience, I wouldn’t move to NYC for less than $120,000.
I think you are dreaming. Sure, its an expensive city to live, but I dont think the proportional increases in salary would get you 120K in NYC if the NE average according to core is 70K (which sounds pretty reasonable or a tiny bit low, depending on industry).
Put it this way. Your 32K GPB in the Uk is by exchange about 62K USD. I dont think you can expect such a huge increase especially given that the UK is probably equal or higher (depending on location) in living costs to NYC. If you are such a “rare find” you would be just as rare or more so in the UK so salary would be similar. I’d expect that depending on job, experience, skills, company, etc. you would be able to increase an average of 10-20% from current relocation for a new position anywhere else incl. NYC.
Just my opinion.
R
Knowing what the going rate for someone with 7 years of experience is in the rest of the country, I still believe that is a good estimate.
If you’re in other areas of the NE (upstate NY, MA, PA, OH), someone with 7 years should be making around $70k. After taking in to consideration the increase of cost of living in NYC, $120k is actually on the low side…
Like I said, I wouldn’t even consider a job NYC for less than $120k.
guess you wont be moving to NYC any time soon. 
check some salary comparison tools on the net.
http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/costofliving/costofliving.html?step=result¤t_salary=70000&from_city=Boston+MA&to_city=New+York+(Manhattan)+NY&x=42&y=4
just checked this one, and 70K in Boston equals 107 in NYC. But you also have to take into account not just cost of living but the competitive, larger market. NYC is full of eager designers jsut happy to be in NYC, so I’d guess you’d be able to get 90max on a comparison of 70 elsewhere.
Sure, NYC is expensive to live, but also remeber most people dont live in Manhattan, dont have a car, etc. There isnt as much of a cost of living discrepancy as you would think.
Again, salary also depends a lot on your experience and how unique you are in skills, etc.
R
I never said I wanted to. 
There is life (and career opportunities) outside of NYC, SF and Boston for designers. Chances are your quality of life outside those design “meccas” would be much better as well.
If I make enough in the Mid-West and have a decent quality of life, I can still afford to fly to NYC for a couple of days to “soak in” the design culture and recharge my batteries.
Honestly, in today’s world, it doesn’t matter where you live or that you live where you work. NYC, Milan or Hong Kong are just as close as Cleveland with today’s communication tools.
Ok, I digress, but you get the point…
Thank you for your very different ends of the scale. I hope that the initial post wasnt aroogant. (rkuchinsky) that wasnt my intention. I was just wanting to guage what a euro import could expect in NYC.
best’
Hey thanks for the posts.
With regards to the new york post - I t got canned - I’d love to tell the company but that just wouldnt be right.
what I’d like to disclose is the amount of false promise, time wasting and un professional nature of companies in the US when considering hiring UK applicants.
It tkaes time to get over to the states - visas etc. but to add to the mix you have unhelpful HR people who, having headhunted you and gone 80% on the process then just drop the application and cease to get in touch.
Having experienced this with both the west coast and the east coast in the last year I am not filled with confidence.
Is ours the only industry where people do not seem to count? It upsets me that people so not take the time and common curtesy to reply to email / longdistance calls during the application process.
I am beginning to believe a friend who described the design trade as “Beautiful Prostitution” … 