Data to make designers' salaries and working hours unnecessary "Design Census 2016"

It is an industry association of American graphic design with worldwide influenceAIGAIn the past ten years we have conducted questionnaires about salaries for member companies. In order to further strengthen the questionnaire result, we conducted a questionnaire survey in partnership with Google in 2016,Design Census 2016"Published as. We are now able to see striking data such as designers' salary, working hours, labor satisfaction.

Design Census 2016
http://ds-2016-staging.winfieldco.com/#!/results/


What is displayed on the first page is the average annual income of the designers of all the companies subject to survey. The number of respondents was 8473, and the average annual income was $ 74,428 (about 7.6 million yen). The proportion of designers receiving annual income of 25,000 to 50,000 dollars (about 2.8 million to 5.7 million yen) is the largest (31%), followed by annual income of 50,000 to 75,000 dollars (about 5.7 million to 8.5 million Designers (29%) are receiving the yen). On the other hand, 9% of the respondents received less than $ 25,000 per year of annual income (about 2.8 million yen), and only 1% of the total receives over 200,000 dollars (about 22 million yen) about.


"CLOSE" at the left of the page, "BENEFITS" at the bottom and "FILTERS" on the right. Click "CLOSE" to finish displaying the survey data, click "BENEFITS" (click the button at the bottom of the screen) to display the next survey data, and click "FILTERS" to filter the data. Click "FILTERS".


Then the filter is displayed on the right side of the screen. From the top of the filter the filter is "ETYNICITY", "GENDER", "LOCATION", "ORGANIZATION TYPE", "ORGANIZATION SIZE", "ORGANIZATION INDUSTRY" There are seven types.


As a test, I entered "Asia" in "ETYNICITY" and "Japan" in "LOCATION" and examined the salary circumstances of Japanese designers ... ...


As follows. There are only nine people who answered the questionnaire in Asia 's Japan workers, but their average annual income is $ 49,992 (about 5.6 million yen). Looking at the breakdown, 78% is between 25,000 dollars and 50 thousand dollars (about 2.8 million to 5.7 million yen), and the number of responses is only 9 people and the amount of data which is too small to take an average It seems that even if it is based on the point that it shows a different tone from the data of the whole world. There is not a designer who receives average annual income considerably lower than the global average, receiving an annual income of 50 thousand to 75 thousand dollars in the middle class, and there are several designers who receive over 75 thousand dollars.


Subsequently it is displayed about the guarantee that designers can receive in each company. Paid vacation, medical insurance, childcare leave, etc. are ranked in.


The final educational background of the designers are as follows, with the bachelor's degree acquiring 68% and the master's degree acquiring 18%.


The average working hours per week was 44 hours, 42% of the total answered 30 to 40 hours. There are also 2% (about 190 people) of designers who perform labor from 70 to 80 hours a week.


Looking at the working hours only for Japanese designers, although the average working hours per week decreased to 42 hours, the proportion of designers working more than 50 hours a week increased considerably.


As a result of investigating the degree of satisfaction with work, 80% answered "I am satisfied".


When I talked about the future of design, the most frequently appearing word was "digital (digital)" and the number of times was 605 times. "Frequently occurring words other than digital are" interactive (300 times) "" simple (231 times) "" exciting (166 times) "" human (159 times) "" innovative (159 times) "" experience (140 times) " It is "inclusive (131 times)" "clean (130 times)" "design (126 times)".