Urgent advice needed!

I've been asked for my salary expectations as a Senior designer for an agency in Toronto.

I'm currently making 80k.
How much should I ask
What are industry standards with Agencies?
TIA

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110-150K

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Sometimes when I don’t feel comfortable saying or if I’m not sure, I just ask them what their budget is!

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Yes thats the best approach

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Check on Glassdoor and LinkedIn salary! Even indeed. They’re helpful and pretty up to date resources and you can search by location

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Retweet in the 110-150.

If they like you enough they will agree or come back with their highest #

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Pad it!!! They’ll most likely negotiate you down. Always aim higher.

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Give a big range and the lowest should be your minimum expectation so anything more is just icing on the cake

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Dude with 8 years of exp, you should make nothing less than 160k you bring over 20,000 hours of design work. Think from that perspectives

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Yes, arent you going for a Senior UX position though?

Also, what kind of senior designer? Graphic? UX? Product? Industrial? Interior?
There are huuuge differences in salaries between those

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Then that’s probably around $90-$100!

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Whatever you think you’re value is. Can always negotiate down, tougher to negotiate up

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Ask them what there budget is but go for what you know you deserve I say at least 95

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Senior Designer with 8 years experience should be ~$120,000. If in consulting or interface, $150,000+

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whomever is making the offer (a job) supplies the price. push back or do your research and give them a rate above what you want.

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I’m a remote brand designer making 140,000. 9 years of exp

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Check out levels.fyi it’s for tech tho so it’s a little inflated for advertising

How many years of exp do you have?

Two designers that come to mind right away have the official title of “Product designer” one holds a senior position and the other is a lead. Both make over 100k the senior told me himself that he make 120k. They work for a company based in NYC. Canadian jobs tend to pay less than USA based companies. It’s all UX btw the titles are arbitrary.

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Depending on experience you can ask for 90k

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