Conflicting? Not exactly. This just indicates that architecture salaries are lower than other professions, but are beginning to catch up a bit. Low, but on the rise...
L+L -
just making the point that the prev news post (and discussion) suggested "doom" while this news item paints a far rosier picture -- maybe the AIA is doing publicity to combat backlash from the CNN article...
The AIA has such high standards and a nimble spin doctor. I love that Architects as a profesion are absolutely pummeling the annual compound rate of growth for US salaries in other profession by a whopping .8 of a percentage point (3.3 vs 2.5) that is statically negligible!!!
"Slower economy has caused a decline in firms offering sign-on bonuses."
Huh? Does this even happen? Not to me or anyone I know.
Our problems are with ourselves, not others. I don't think forming a union or crabbing about Wal-mart and sprawl is going to make things better. I think a huge flash mob (by both AIA professionals and un-AIA'd interns) at the AIA headquarters in DC (with media invites) would be the first step in the long road towards communiticating the broad, and frankly dire, need for professional and economic respectability.
i guess what we've learned from these two news stories is that when you're pays at the bottom of the barrel, there's nowhere to go but up.
bryden, i absolutely agree with you if your statement pertains to an increased accountability or a new set of standards as to what specifically defines an architect. of course the part that scares me when anyone starts to criticize our profession from within is, "which is more damaging: the fact that we are viewed as expendable and a luxury item by the general public or the concept that inherently many architects view themselves as a luxury item and expendable and then relate this to the general public" in other words, meat before potatoes...how do we gain professional and economic respectability without re-defining the current parameters of what defines (politically) our profession.
How do we gain professional and economic respectability?
Easy! By wearing all black expensive outfits and wearing uber cool ICberlin frames! The general public will have to respect us and look to us for their everyday design needs if we dress fashionably!
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Conflicting? Not exactly. This just indicates that architecture salaries are lower than other professions, but are beginning to catch up a bit. Low, but on the rise...
L+L -
just making the point that the prev news post (and discussion) suggested "doom" while this news item paints a far rosier picture -- maybe the AIA is doing publicity to combat backlash from the CNN article...
The AIA has such high standards and a nimble spin doctor. I love that Architects as a profesion are absolutely pummeling the annual compound rate of growth for US salaries in other profession by a whopping .8 of a percentage point (3.3 vs 2.5) that is statically negligible!!!
"Slower economy has caused a decline in firms offering sign-on bonuses."
Huh? Does this even happen? Not to me or anyone I know.
Our problems are with ourselves, not others. I don't think forming a union or crabbing about Wal-mart and sprawl is going to make things better. I think a huge flash mob (by both AIA professionals and un-AIA'd interns) at the AIA headquarters in DC (with media invites) would be the first step in the long road towards communiticating the broad, and frankly dire, need for professional and economic respectability.
i guess what we've learned from these two news stories is that when you're pays at the bottom of the barrel, there's nowhere to go but up.
bryden, i absolutely agree with you if your statement pertains to an increased accountability or a new set of standards as to what specifically defines an architect. of course the part that scares me when anyone starts to criticize our profession from within is, "which is more damaging: the fact that we are viewed as expendable and a luxury item by the general public or the concept that inherently many architects view themselves as a luxury item and expendable and then relate this to the general public" in other words, meat before potatoes...how do we gain professional and economic respectability without re-defining the current parameters of what defines (politically) our profession.
How do we gain professional and economic respectability?
Easy! By wearing all black expensive outfits and wearing uber cool ICberlin frames! The general public will have to respect us and look to us for their everyday design needs if we dress fashionably!
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