ASTD Salary & Compensation Survey 2011

ASTD has just released their 2011 Salary & Compensation Report for the L&D field.

Let's discuss:

• Median salary for men is $80,000-$90,000; for women it is $70,000-$80,000
• The proportion of men earning $120,000 or more is twice that of women
• Women are not as well represented in higher paying categories of L&D. There is a dearth of women in executive ranks and higher compensated specialties, possessing advanced degrees, or having 20 or more years of experience.

eLearning Guild’s 2011 Salary Report

According to this latest report, eLearning salaries worldwide grew 2.0% this year.  Did yours?

Are you in range with the average global e-Learning salary of $76,852? (in the U.S. it’s reported to be at $79,890).

Check out the full report: eLearning Guild’s 2011 Salary Report

A Closer Look at the Data: The Gender Pay Gap in e-Learning

Temple Smolen, writing in Learning Solutions Magazine, has done a thoughtful dive into the data to look more at The Gender Pay Gap in e-Learning (a rant we started when we first read the eLearning Guild's 2010 Salary Report!)

The gap is real. So what's a woman to do? Smolen says we in the e-Learning biz are "the epitome of change catalysts." Her suggestion:

Use the examples in the last section of the 2010 Salary and Compensation Report to calculate the fair “average” salary for yourself or your employees without gender as a variable. If you already enjoy fair or above average compensation without a gender bias, then congratulate yourself. If not, chart a course to enact a small change for you or your team.

She then suggests a few ways to go on and seek that change, but I won't be a spoiler. Go read the article.

Many thanks to Temple Smolen for continuing this conversation!

The Unofficial eLearning Salary Calculator

Check out this cool little widget !

As a nice little follow up to the ranting we’ve been doing about the eLearning Salary Gender Gap, Travis Smith took the bull by the horns and created a little salary calculator based on all of the variables reported on by the eLearning Guild in their latest salary report.

If you're not sure about the variables Travis used in the calculator, be sure to review the report which looks at survey results from eLearning Guild members. If you don't agree with those variables, then make sure you've taken the survey yourself and added your data to the mix!

Now you can just plug in your own bits of data (I work in Massachusetts, 15+ years experience, female), click Calculate– and voila! you can see how much you’re being over- or under-paid.

Go plug in your data and let us know how you fared.

(Based on early Twitter feedback, people are feeling underpaid...)

Thanks, Travis!

eLearning Guild’s 2010 Salary Report

In case you missed this, the eLearning Guild has recently released the 2010 Salary and Compensation Report (United States) by Temple Smolen, culled from data provided by eLearning Guild members. 

“The average salary of a person who lives in the United States and works in e-Learning is $79,252.”

Having a Masters Degree does help, giving you a +3.2% boost.

Instructional Designers come in at –4.6% from the industry average.  Apparently, if you want to make the really big bucks you need to be on the “executive management” side of the business.

According to research results, men on average make $10k more than woman.  Yes – even in the eLearning biz:

There continues to be a consistent gender gap in pay between men and women. On average, men are paid 14.5% more than women. This gap is most notable in part-time employee pay, where women receive an average hourly rate that is 49.4% lower than the rate men receive, while working a comparable number of hours.  (p. 25)

Well then. Needless to say, that really ticks me off…

I like the Examples – How to Use This Data section with scenarios for new hires, contractors and employees seeking a raise.

Check out the data and do a few calculations of your own.  Then ask yourself if you’re on track…

Great stuff for employers looking to hire, eLearning professionals looking to be hired, and all the rest of us in between.

Read more about the report and download it from the Guild’s website.

Photo credit:  Money 2 by borman818 on Flickr

eLearning Guild 2009 Salary Report

Check out the 2009 salary report from the eLearning Guild.

Brent Schlenker asks, "Are you making over $78k as an elearning professional?"

Want more? Here's an older post of mine on salaries for instructional designers.

Salaries for Instructional Designers

Are you wondering if your salary is up to snuff? Do you need a raise? Want to figure out what you might make if you were to enter the illustrious world of instructional design?

Here's a list of salary resources where you can find out more:

Payscale
(I liked this one a lot. You enter your own salary and location and see how it compares to the averages in your region.)

Indeed
(Kind of basic, but it's good to view another data set.)

ASTD (Warning, you need to purchase the article, which I didn't do...)

E-Learning Guild's Annual Salary Reports for the US and Canada 2008 (Lots of ways to cut the data here. Great report!)

[I discovered the first three links via a posting on the ITFORUM discussion list.]

Photo credit: $5700 by Andrew Magill