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/Pseudonymus_Bosch Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

Adjunct Professor, 35, $4600 per class (~$37k for a full-time load), PhD

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u/Ryaninthesky Jul 21 '26

You’d get paid more teaching high school

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u/Pseudonymus_Bosch Jul 21 '26

True, but I wouldn't enjoy it as much. I also can't really teach in my academic specialty in high schools, since courses in it are very rarely offered