I’ve recently got three offers for a UX Designer position. The offers are in different cities (Denver, Chicago, Austin) and I’m trying to understand what the average salary is for this position. All three offers are with highly respectable ad agencies and require 1 year of experience.

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With asking only one year experience I’m assuming entry level. I’m also assuming you will be moving to one of those cities.

Austin entry level I would say the base line that I wouldn’t go under is 50k-60k. Depending on the company (say tech) entry could be 70-80k. Austin has gotten notoriously expensive and the infrastructure is subpar as of late so you should consider these things as well.

Denver housing/living costs is similar from what I hear, also if you live in Colorado you won’t be able to apply for as many better jobs in the future because of the transparent pay mandate that employers hate working with.

I don’t know about Chicago but between LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and other findable resources you should be able to get an idea if the company is lowballing you.

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