...currently studying for exams and wanting to know what young, registered architects with 5 years experience are getting around the country. Where's the old salary poll? It was quite valuable. That being said:
anyone else struggling to study due to the fact that zero to minimal "reward" will be garnered upon becoming registered? I dismiss and become beyond frustrated when some make the response - "well, what can you do now that you are registered? are you more billable? is your job duty going to change? are you going to bring in work? etc etc. Silliness. The drive to learn more and move forward as a professional is met with such a haltering reality that things move sllooooww in architecture ( and it is more a personal victory than anything else to becoming licensed). I'm starting to see the reason why my talented friends of my graduating class are leaving the profession for better pay / opportunity elsewhere. Is there hope that we're at the beginning of that next 7 to 8 year upswing / bubble until the next crash = better pay coming? Ha
pale shelter: There are any number of graduate architects with similar work experience to your own who - for their own reasons - have chosen not to pursue licensure. I'm pretty sure most of them won't consider you "more valuable" simply due to your completion of the ARE.
If the license isn't valuable to you in it's own right then nothing we can say here is likely to give you any satisfaction.
pale shelter: i dont know if this will help or not, but i am not registered at the moment, will be hopefully soon. i currently have 4 years of experience and make 54,000 a year. I will get a raise when i am registered however do not know what that will be. i am currently making more than others in my firm though. even higher than some with more experience. however, i did not get into architecture for the money. i am rewarded with the fact that i am doing what i set out to do. i love the profession and am very passionate about it. you will hear this alot but if you got in for the money you got in for the wrong reason. wish you the best with whatever direction you choose.
I have 20 years experience, licensed in 2 states, have earned as much as 75K some years, as little as 42K last few years, this year not much better but at least Im on my own. Sooo - It gets better. Trust me. Or you blow your head off at when you hit 45 with no house, kids, car, savings or prospects and hair anymore.
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salary poll just too embarassing to post?
...currently studying for exams and wanting to know what young, registered architects with 5 years experience are getting around the country. Where's the old salary poll? It was quite valuable. That being said:
anyone else struggling to study due to the fact that zero to minimal "reward" will be garnered upon becoming registered? I dismiss and become beyond frustrated when some make the response - "well, what can you do now that you are registered? are you more billable? is your job duty going to change? are you going to bring in work? etc etc. Silliness. The drive to learn more and move forward as a professional is met with such a haltering reality that things move sllooooww in architecture ( and it is more a personal victory than anything else to becoming licensed). I'm starting to see the reason why my talented friends of my graduating class are leaving the profession for better pay / opportunity elsewhere. Is there hope that we're at the beginning of that next 7 to 8 year upswing / bubble until the next crash = better pay coming? Ha
pale shelter: There are any number of graduate architects with similar work experience to your own who - for their own reasons - have chosen not to pursue licensure. I'm pretty sure most of them won't consider you "more valuable" simply due to your completion of the ARE. If the license isn't valuable to you in it's own right then nothing we can say here is likely to give you any satisfaction.
pale shelter: i dont know if this will help or not, but i am not registered at the moment, will be hopefully soon. i currently have 4 years of experience and make 54,000 a year. I will get a raise when i am registered however do not know what that will be. i am currently making more than others in my firm though. even higher than some with more experience. however, i did not get into architecture for the money. i am rewarded with the fact that i am doing what i set out to do. i love the profession and am very passionate about it. you will hear this alot but if you got in for the money you got in for the wrong reason. wish you the best with whatever direction you choose.
I have 20 years experience, licensed in 2 states, have earned as much as 75K some years, as little as 42K last few years, this year not much better but at least Im on my own. Sooo - It gets better. Trust me. Or you blow your head off at when you hit 45 with no house, kids, car, savings or prospects and hair anymore.
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