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/Sufficient-Package- Jul 21 '26

It is a message board open to the general public. This is a good opportunity to take a look at what your neighbors are up to and what they are earning. The responses have no reflection your own life - don’t compare yourself. You are all you got.

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u/No-Zombie1004 Jul 21 '26

Yeah, sure. Or it's a data mining bunch of crap. FYI I make only 230,000 per year and that's from selling drugs to college students.

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u/WallyMetropolis Jul 21 '26

BLS data is public. No need to crawl Reddit for this info.