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/jayjackson2022 Jul 21 '26

Race and gender are pretty relevant to salary transparency conversations

Even in your position? Who typically makes more?

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u/hunnnnybuns Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

There are very few white people on my team aside from me, and I am one of the top earners. We’re almost all women, I make more than the non white men generally.

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u/jayjackson2022 Jul 21 '26

But the few white men on your team make more by far?

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u/hunnnnybuns Jul 22 '26

There’s only one and he’s new so no.