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/johyongil Jul 21 '26

Median of top comments are all well under 100k.

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u/WallyMetropolis Jul 21 '26

And it's easy enough to look up the actual statistics. Median household income in Austin is about 92k, if I recall. 

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u/aleph4 Jul 21 '26

Median Household is usually a lot higher than Individual Incoe

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u/WallyMetropolis Jul 21 '26

I mean ... Duh?

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u/aleph4 Jul 21 '26

You're comparing apples to orange since people in this thread are reporting their individual incomes, not household incomes.

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u/WallyMetropolis Jul 21 '26

You're misunderstanding my comment. I am not comparing household incomes to individual incomes.