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Here's a bunch of resources and links that I collate with the community's help. It covers anything from salary guides, negotiation, books, or articles that loosely cover the topic around pay or career.

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Resources

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Link

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Contributors

Singapore Architecture Pay Transparency Project

https://lookerstudio.google.com/s/jmqWLeLKc74

Salary

sgarchipay

Japan-dev Design Experiences

https://japan-dev.com/designer-experiences

Salary

National Design Industry & Manpower Study 2021/2022 SG

https://designsingapore.org/resources/national-design-industry-manpower-study-2021-2022/

Salary

Verified Salary Stream

https://www.levels.fyi/verified/?track=Product%20Manager

Salary

Job Search

Clement

Singapore salary guide

https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/graphics/2022/01/singapore-salary-guide/index.html?shell

Salary

Clement

Design Salaries India

https://designersalaries.in/

Salary

Mo

Global UX Compensation Transparency Project

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xaz_n6Iys5H2tALBySI_7nXVBygN3d9moGLriOhj61I/edit#gid=957614055

Salary

Kein

Salary Transparent Street

https://direct.me/salarytransparentstreet/

Salary

MalaysianPAYGAP wage transparency dashboard

https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/b3e2310a-44f4-4a0c-82ad-ee3430c562d2/page/p_y00cuqsxsc

Salary

Kein

Carta blog - owner’s manual

https://carta.com/blog/

Salary

Gender Pay Gap Bot

https://mobile.twitter.com/paygapapp

Salary

Malaysian Pay Gap

https://github.com/yudhiesh/MalaysianPayGap

Salary

UX Salary in Vietnam Report

https://uxvn.org/ux-salary-report

Salary

Buffer’s Transparent salaries

https://buffer.com/salaries

Salary

Google's Salary Cuts for Remote Workers Renew Location-Based Pay Debate

https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/compensation/pages/google-renews-location-based-pay-debate.aspx

Salary

Gitlab Compensation Calculator

http://web-old.archive.org/web/20200721063326/https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation/compensation-calculator/calculator/

Salary

THE HOLLOWAY GUIDE TO Equity Compensation

https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation

Salary

WorkLife with Adam Grant: Why it Pays to Raise Pay podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/why-it-pays-to-raise-pay/id1346314086?i=1000521240998

Salary

Open Repository of Design Salaries

https://salary.design

Salary

🇨🇳 Level & salary comparison tool - 职级对标

https://duibiao.info

Salary

🇹🇼 Sharing Salary in Taiwan

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TpgQjxLGG7FGJ3snliWsvkARCw363eutAO-OuRFqEw4/edit#gid=1145296357

Salary

How to Maximize Your Lifetime Earning Potential

https://medium.com/invinciblecareer/how-to-maximize-your-lifetime-earning-potential-a3233484558b

Salary

Salary Secrets: What Is the Average Raise Percentage?

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/090415/salary-secrets-what-considered-big-raise.asp

Salary

UXSurveySEA 2020

https://www.notion.so/Welcome-to-UXSurveySEA-2020-0e21503cb94b4923a5e02e5770c8a69a

Salary

H1B Salary Database - US

https://h1bdata.info

Salary

Malaysia Experience Design Landscape (Responses)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Yb4zAY6tpHtleDEH5O65UAPCSuZ9EGNDu2yDsP2-WAg/edit#gid=658130834

Salary

Hired Salary Calculator

https://hired.com/salary-calculator/software-engineering/san-francisco-bay-area?yoe=2-4

Salary

LinkedIn salary guide

https://www.linkedin.com/salary/

Salary

The Complete Graphic Designer Salary Breakdown

https://www.shillingtoneducation.com/blog/graphic-designer-salary/

Salary

Salary Guide by Vitamin T

https://brand.vitamintalent.com/salary-guide

Salary

Design Salary Guide by Coroflot

https://www.coroflot.com/designsalaryguide

Salary

Levels.FYI - Product Designers

https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Product%20Designer

Salary

Graphic Design Salary Transparency

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aFoSJr1qWBH3nWMeoEdFP4her8NvI7RZf6skyQmOAsU/edit#gid=257041397

Salary

Design Census 2019

https://designcensus.org

Salary

G lobal Design Survey 2019 - Dribbble

https://dribbble.com/global-design-survey-2019

Salary

Negotiation Success – The complete guide to negotiation skills and good practice

https://www.huthwaiteinternational.com/blog/complete-guide-to-negotiation-skills

Negotiation

Negotiables by Jian Wei

Negotiation

Jian Wei

Salary Negotiation Tips for Remote Workers

https://blog.powertofly.com/salary-negotiation-tips-for-remote-workers

Negotiation

Commentary: Why aren’t more people negotiating salary when accepting a new job offer?

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/singapore-salary-expectation-job-interview-pay-2466076

Negotiation

Christ Voss Teaches the Art of Negotiation

https://www.masterclass.com/classes/chris-voss-teaches-the-art-of-negotiation

Negotiation

How I negotiated a $300,000 job offer in Silicon Valley

https://bayareabelletrist.medium.com/how-i-negotiated-a-software-engineer-offer-in-silicon-valley-f11590f5c656

Negotiation

Benjamin George

The cost of not negotiating

https://hbr.org/2009/01/is-talent-going-to-waste-in-yo

Negotiation

WorkLife with Adam Grant: The Science of the Deal podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/the-science-of-the-deal/id1346314086?i=1000469312967

Negotiation

Bargaining While Black: The Role of Race in Salary Negotiations

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/apl-apl0000363.pdf

Negotiation

Social incentives for gender differences in the propensity to initiate negotiations: Sometimes it does hurt to ask

https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/cfawis/bowles.pdf

Negotiation

Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

Negotiation

Lean Out: The Dangers for Women Who Negotiate

https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/lean-out-the-dangers-for-women-who-negotiate

Negotiation

Can You Still Negotiate Your Salary in a Pandemic?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-you-still-negotiate-your-salary-pandemic-christian-esq-m-a-/

Negotiation

How to negotiate compensation after landing a job

https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-negotiate-compensation-after-landing-a-job-ce79ba5fb886

Negotiation

The Biggest Salary Negotiation Mistakes You’re Making

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biggest-salary-negotiation-mistakes-making-200055036.html

Negotiation

Salary Negotiation Tips from White Men in Tech: Part 2

https://www.keirstenbrager.tech/salarytips-part2/

Negotiation

What is Anchoring in Negotiation?

https://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/negotiation-skills-daily/what-is-anchoring-in-negotiation/

Negotiation

Salary Negotiation Tips from White Men in Tech: Part 1

https://www.keirstenbrager.tech/salarytips-part1/

Negotiation

Salary Negotiation Scripts For Any Job by Glassdoor

https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/salary-negotiation-scripts-for-any-job/

Negotiation

How Not to Bomb Your Offer Negotiation

https://haseebq.com/how-not-to-bomb-your-offer-negotiation/

Negotiation

10 Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer

https://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer/

Negotiation

Salary negotiation strategies by Candor

https://candor.co/guides/salary-negotiation

Negotiation

UX FAQs - Yichen He

https://www.notion.so/UX-FAQs-3cbed70a2ce244208394a852af79996f

Job Search

Others

How to be a “diamond in the rough” applicant when applying for jobs

https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-be-a-diamond-in-the-rough-applicant-when-applying-for-jobs-522617edb80d

Job Search

If You’re About to Take a New Job, Should You Consider Your Boss’s Counteroffer?

https://hbr.org/2019/01/if-youre-about-to-take-a-new-job-should-you-consider-your-bosss-counteroffer

Job Search

Teal’s Job Tracker Chrome Extension

https://www.tealhq.com/job-tracker

Job Search

JobWiz - Tech job portal in Singapore with salary ranges

https://jobwiz.sg

Job Search

When You Start a New Job, Pay Attention to These 5 Aspects of Company Culture

https://hbr.org/2018/03/when-you-start-a-new-job-pay-attention-to-these-5-aspects-of-company-culture

Job Search

The Path to Senior Product Designer

https://productdesigninterview.com/the-path-to-senior-product-designer

Books

Artiom Dashinsky

Never split the difference - Chris Voss

https://www.amazon.com/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-Depended/dp/0062407805

Books

Negotiation

https://www.designed.org

Community

Ladies Get Paid

https://www.ladiesgetpaid.com

Community

A Snapshot of the UX/UI Design Community in Singapore

https://www.studiodojo.com/snapshot-of-the-ux-ui-design-community-in-singapore/

Community

Amazing Design People List

https://www.adplist.org

Community

Finland publishes everyone's taxes on 'National Jealousy Day'

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/finland-has-just-published-everyone-s-taxes-on-national-jealousy-day/

Others

‘Lying Flat,’ ‘Antiwork’ And The ‘Great Resignation’ Spreads Worldwide As Young People Protest Against System

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2021/12/30/lying-flat-antiwork-and-the-great-resignation-spreads-worldwide-as-young-people-protest-against-system/?sh=481264a653b7

Others

Here's What Really Happened at That Company That Set a $70,000 Minimum Wage

https://www.inc.com/magazine/201511/paul-keegan/does-more-pay-mean-more-growth.html

Others

Salary

EQUITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION - Paloma Medina

https://www.palomamedina.com/learnmore

Others

Gender and Racial Differentials in Promotions

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.433.1066&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Others

https://www.positiveintelligence.com/saboteurs/

Career

Navigating the individual contributor career path

https://staff.design

Career

progression.fyi

https://www.progression.fyi

Career

Dropbox Engineering Career Framework

https://dropbox.github.io/dbx-career-framework/overview.html

Career

4 roles of a design leader - Studio Dojo

https://www.notion.so/designpaytransparency/4-roles-of-a-design-leader-0fcba3e4c37d47abbde2c63a5ff1aa56#8ba80190849b4667bfbae1454a803275

Career

Career Management

https://nabilkaz.notion.site/Career-Management-7be2dde4934945cd8d79e35c324cca23

Career

A Design Team’s Guide to Leveling

https://medium.com/bridge-collection/a-design-teams-guide-to-leveling-5de45107a147

Career

So, you’re managing a design team

https://uxdesign.cc/so-youre-managing-a-design-team-56d140f6241b

Career

Menaka Chandrasekhar

Uncovering UX Design in Southeast Asia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMyU0weWQGI

Career

Skills Framework for Design

https://www.designsingapore.org/initiatives/skills-framework-for-design.html

Career

Evaluate and improve product design skills

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Ci9z98UmzB5hetUoas7VzodxNnuRkVO_oRGOdhza0E/edit

Career

A guide to becoming a senior product designer

https://uxdesign.cc/a-guide-to-becoming-a-senior-product-designer-7b7296f08910

Career

Where do IC designers go once they peak? •

https://tannerchristensen.com/blog/2019/12/23/where-ic-designers-go-once-they-peak

Career

Top ‘challenges’ recruiters encounter with UX candidates

https://popette.notion.site/Top-challenges-recruiters-encounter-with-UX-candidates-3da56f046ac044b7985a121f6104130c

Interviewing

Kein

ADPList After Hours #6: Design Challenges During Interviews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xSl3v4XxzE

Interviewing

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