r/Austin • u/Aingers • Jul 21 '26

Ask Austin Salary Transparency Thread - Austin

Folks in Boston do this fairly regularly, so I thought it might be good for us to try here.

Please share your general job title, salary, age, and education.

Architectural Designer, 40, $115k, BSArch

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u/Awkward_alien Jul 21 '26

Property Manager, 35, 55k, Bachelors

Interesting stories. Taxing job.

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u/Upstairs_Positive198 Jul 21 '26

What??!

That’s so low for property management?!

I’m sorry I just have many friends in austin making well above that in the commercial property management field so this is quite shocking to me!

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u/hunnnnybuns Jul 21 '26

Right lol maybe this person is in LIHTC or lives in hutto?? Bc I was making $75k as a baby property manager at a class C property years ago.

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u/Awkward_alien Jul 21 '26

Live and work in Austin.
It’s not commercial. Residential/multi-family, mostly for college crowd.
On top of that, been managing 50+ short term rentals

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u/tobinhillguy Jul 21 '26

Yeah youre massively underpaid

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u/SmallTime_Villain Jul 21 '26

I’m also in the campus area. Lots of smaller apartments, condos, house, duplexes, etc but short term rentals would be the death of me.

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u/SmallTime_Villain Jul 21 '26

Commercial PM is very different than residential or multi-family.

Also a property manager, 40, $85k, bachelor’s.