A few weeks ago the release of the UPA 2005 Salary Survey triggered a cross-blog discussion about salary differences between men and women in the user experience field.
Summing up: I was the author of the report (producing it is part of my duties as UPA VP and Director of Members and Sponsors). My writeup documented a salary differential between male and female survey respondents: median salary for males was 80K; for women, 72K. (Average salaries were 82.8K for men and 74.3K for women.)
In a rare instance of Jakob Nielsen lagging the discussion and not the other way around, Jakob posted some salary info of his own here.
In a comment posted to Webword I pledged to follow up on this issue with some additional analysis. I intentionally made that public commitment. I figured I’d be more likely to actually follow up if I said it in a public forum.
Thankfully, my UPA Board buddy Lyle Kantrovich helped out with these analyses. So give him props (and visit his blog).
So here’s what Lyle and I found:
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