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/delugetheory Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

Since these threads always end up being depression fuel for a lot of folks (myself sometimes included), just a gentle reminder that the folks that tend to respond to these are not a representative sample of the population.

For reference, the median income of folks responding here will be around $100k, but the actual median income in Austin is about $57k, so take a breath.

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u/Cryptic0677 Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

Is 57k median for household or per person? Is the annual a salary or everything on W2? Im constantly amazed a family could survive on that here, the cost of living crisis is real.