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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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Singapore Architecture Pay Transparency Project
Salary
https://lookerstudio.google.com/s/jmqWLeLKc74
sgarchipay
Japan-dev Design Experiences
Salary
https://japan-dev.com/designer-experiences
National Design Industry & Manpower Study 2021/2022 SG
Salary
https://designsingapore.org/resources/national-design-industry-manpower-study-2021-2022/
Verified Salary Stream
Salary
Job Search
https://www.levels.fyi/verified/?track=Product%20Manager
Clement
Levels.fyi requires a proof document (Offer Letter, Pay Statement, etc) before publishing Verified Salaries. Compensation numbers published are within close margin of the real number (modified slightly for further anonymity).
Singapore salary guide
Salary
https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/graphics/2022/01/singapore-salary-guide/index.html?shell
Clement
Salary in general
Design Salaries India
Salary
https://designersalaries.in/
Mo
Global UX Compensation Transparency Project
Salary
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xaz_n6Iys5H2tALBySI_7nXVBygN3d9moGLriOhj61I/edit#gid=957614055
Kein
by Amy Santee
Salary Transparent Street
Salary
https://direct.me/salarytransparentstreet/
MalaysianPAYGAP wage transparency dashboard
Salary
https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/b3e2310a-44f4-4a0c-82ad-ee3430c562d2/page/p_y00cuqsxsc
Kein
Carta blog - owner’s manual
Salary
https://carta.com/blog/
Great content on equity
Gender Pay Gap Bot
Salary
https://mobile.twitter.com/paygapapp
Malaysian Pay Gap
Salary
https://github.com/yudhiesh/MalaysianPayGap
UX Salary in Vietnam Report
Salary
https://uxvn.org/ux-salary-report
Thái Lâm
Buffer’s Transparent salaries
Salary
https://buffer.com/salaries
Jill Quek
Google's Salary Cuts for Remote Workers Renew Location-Based Pay Debate
Salary
https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/compensation/pages/google-renews-location-based-pay-debate.aspx
Jill Quek
Gitlab Compensation Calculator
Salary
http://web-old.archive.org/web/20200721063326/https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation/compensation-calculator/calculator/
Jill Quek
Includes “location factor” for remote workers
THE HOLLOWAY GUIDE TO Equity Compensation
Salary
https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation
WorkLife with Adam Grant: Why it Pays to Raise Pay podcast
Salary
https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/why-it-pays-to-raise-pay/id1346314086?i=1000521240998
Open Repository of Design Salaries
Salary
https://salary.design
🇨🇳 Level & salary comparison tool - 职级对标
Salary
https://duibiao.info
🇹🇼 Sharing Salary in Taiwan
Salary
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TpgQjxLGG7FGJ3snliWsvkARCw363eutAO-OuRFqEw4/edit#gid=1145296357
How to Maximize Your Lifetime Earning Potential
Salary
https://medium.com/invinciblecareer/how-to-maximize-your-lifetime-earning-potential-a3233484558b
Salary Secrets: What Is the Average Raise Percentage?
Salary
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/090415/salary-secrets-what-considered-big-raise.asp
UXSurveySEA 2020
Salary
https://www.notion.so/Welcome-to-UXSurveySEA-2020-0e21503cb94b4923a5e02e5770c8a69a
H1B Salary Database - US
Salary
https://h1bdata.info
Malaysia Experience Design Landscape (Responses)
Salary
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Yb4zAY6tpHtleDEH5O65UAPCSuZ9EGNDu2yDsP2-WAg/edit#gid=658130834
Hired Salary Calculator
Salary
https://hired.com/salary-calculator/software-engineering/san-francisco-bay-area?yoe=2-4
Not a lot of data but real salaries and not user inputted
LinkedIn salary guide
Salary
https://www.linkedin.com/salary/
country dependant
The Complete Graphic Designer Salary Breakdown
Salary
https://www.shillingtoneducation.com/blog/graphic-designer-salary/
Salary Guide by Vitamin T
Salary
https://brand.vitamintalent.com/salary-guide
Design Salary Guide by Coroflot
Salary
https://www.coroflot.com/designsalaryguide
Levels.FYI - Product Designers
Salary
https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Product%20Designer
Graphic Design Salary Transparency
Salary
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aFoSJr1qWBH3nWMeoEdFP4her8NvI7RZf6skyQmOAsU/edit#gid=257041397
Design Census 2019
Salary
https://designcensus.org
Not available
Global Design Survey 2019 - Dribbble
Salary
https://dribbble.com/global-design-survey-2019
Negotiation Success – The complete guide to negotiation skills and good practice
Negotiation
https://www.huthwaiteinternational.com/blog/complete-guide-to-negotiation-skills
Negotiables by Jian Wei
Negotiation
Jian Wei
Image in the post
Salary Negotiation Tips for Remote Workers
Negotiation
https://blog.powertofly.com/salary-negotiation-tips-for-remote-workers
Jill Quek
Commentary: Why aren’t more people negotiating salary when accepting a new job offer?
Negotiation
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/singapore-salary-expectation-job-interview-pay-2466076
Local to Singapore
Christ Voss Teaches the Art of Negotiation
Negotiation
https://www.masterclass.com/classes/chris-voss-teaches-the-art-of-negotiation
Chi Ming Loh
How I negotiated a $300,000 job offer in Silicon Valley
Negotiation
https://bayareabelletrist.medium.com/how-i-negotiated-a-software-engineer-offer-in-silicon-valley-f11590f5c656
Benjamin George
The cost of not negotiating
Negotiation
https://hbr.org/2009/01/is-talent-going-to-waste-in-yo
WorkLife with Adam Grant: The Science of the Deal podcast
Negotiation
https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/the-science-of-the-deal/id1346314086?i=1000469312967
Bargaining While Black: The Role of Race in Salary Negotiations
Negotiation
https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/apl-apl0000363.pdf
Social incentives for gender differences in the propensity to initiate negotiations: Sometimes it does hurt to ask
Negotiation
https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/cfawis/bowles.pdf
Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued
Negotiation
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
Lean Out: The Dangers for Women Who Negotiate
Negotiation
https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/lean-out-the-dangers-for-women-who-negotiate
Can You Still Negotiate Your Salary in a Pandemic?
Negotiation
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-you-still-negotiate-your-salary-pandemic-christian-esq-m-a-/
How to negotiate compensation after landing a job
Negotiation
https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-negotiate-compensation-after-landing-a-job-ce79ba5fb886
The Biggest Salary Negotiation Mistakes You’re Making
Negotiation
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biggest-salary-negotiation-mistakes-making-200055036.html
Salary Negotiation Tips from White Men in Tech: Part 2
Negotiation
https://www.keirstenbrager.tech/salarytips-part2/
What is Anchoring in Negotiation?
Negotiation
https://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/negotiation-skills-daily/what-is-anchoring-in-negotiation/
Salary Negotiation Tips from White Men in Tech: Part 1
Negotiation
https://www.keirstenbrager.tech/salarytips-part1/
Salary Negotiation Scripts For Any Job by Glassdoor
Negotiation
https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/salary-negotiation-scripts-for-any-job/
How Not to Bomb Your Offer Negotiation
Negotiation
https://haseebq.com/how-not-to-bomb-your-offer-negotiation/
10 Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer
Negotiation
https://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer/
Salary negotiation strategies by Candor
Negotiation
https://candor.co/guides/salary-negotiation
UX FAQs - Yichen He
Job Search
Others
https://www.notion.so/UX-FAQs-3cbed70a2ce244208394a852af79996f
Yichen He
How to be a “diamond in the rough” applicant when applying for jobs
Job Search
https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-be-a-diamond-in-the-rough-applicant-when-applying-for-jobs-522617edb80d
If You’re About to Take a New Job, Should You Consider Your Boss’s Counteroffer?
Job Search
https://hbr.org/2019/01/if-youre-about-to-take-a-new-job-should-you-consider-your-bosss-counteroffer
Teal’s Job Tracker Chrome Extension
Job Search
https://www.tealhq.com/job-tracker
JobWiz - Tech job portal in Singapore with salary ranges
Job Search
https://jobwiz.sg
When You Start a New Job, Pay Attention to These 5 Aspects of Company Culture
Job Search
https://hbr.org/2018/03/when-you-start-a-new-job-pay-attention-to-these-5-aspects-of-company-culture
The Path to Senior Product Designer
Books
https://productdesigninterview.com/the-path-to-senior-product-designer
Artiom Dashinsky
A book helping any designers build an actionable career growth plan and act on it
Never split the difference - Chris Voss
Books
Negotiation
https://www.amazon.com/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-Depended/dp/0062407805
Ladies Get Paid
Community
https://www.ladiesgetpaid.com
A Snapshot of the UX/UI Design Community in Singapore
Community
https://www.studiodojo.com/snapshot-of-the-ux-ui-design-community-in-singapore/
Amazing Design People List
Community
https://www.adplist.org
Finland publishes everyone's taxes on 'National Jealousy Day'
Others
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/finland-has-just-published-everyone-s-taxes-on-national-jealousy-day/
‘Lying Flat,’ ‘Antiwork’ And The ‘Great Resignation’ Spreads Worldwide As Young People Protest Against System
Others
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
Here's What Really Happened at That Company That Set a $70,000 Minimum Wage
Others
Salary
https://www.inc.com/magazine/201511/paul-keegan/does-more-pay-mean-more-growth.html
EQUITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION - Paloma Medina
Others
https://www.palomamedina.com/learnmore
Gender and Racial Differentials in Promotions
Others
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.433.1066&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Self saboteurs
Career
https://www.positiveintelligence.com/saboteurs/
Desiree
Discover the voice that is sabotaging yourself.
Navigating the individual contributor career path
Career
https://staff.design
Focus on IC late career
progression.fyi
Career
https://www.progression.fyi
Dropbox  Engineering Career Framework
Career
https://dropbox.github.io/dbx-career-framework/overview.html
4 roles of a design leader - Studio Dojo
Career
https://www.notion.so/designpaytransparency/4-roles-of-a-design-leader-0fcba3e4c37d47abbde2c63a5ff1aa56#8ba80190849b4667bfbae1454a803275
Khai Seng
Career Management
Career
https://nabilkaz.notion.site/Career-Management-7be2dde4934945cd8d79e35c324cca23
How to craft achievements and impact statement
A Design Team’s Guide to Leveling
Career
https://medium.com/bridge-collection/a-design-teams-guide-to-leveling-5de45107a147
So, you’re managing a design team
Career
https://uxdesign.cc/so-youre-managing-a-design-team-56d140f6241b
Menaka Chandrasekhar
Uncovering UX Design in Southeast Asia
Career
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMyU0weWQGI
Skills Framework for Design
Career
https://www.designsingapore.org/initiatives/skills-framework-for-design.html
Evaluate and improve product design skills
Career
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Ci9z98UmzB5hetUoas7VzodxNnuRkVO_oRGOdhza0E/edit
Jian Wei
A guide to becoming a senior product designer
Career
https://uxdesign.cc/a-guide-to-becoming-a-senior-product-designer-7b7296f08910
Where do IC designers go once they peak? •
Career
https://tannerchristensen.com/blog/2019/12/23/where-ic-designers-go-once-they-peak
Top ‘challenges’ recruiters encounter with UX candidates
Interviewing
https://popette.notion.site/Top-challenges-recruiters-encounter-with-UX-candidates-3da56f046ac044b7985a121f6104130c
Kein
ADPList After Hours #6: Design Challenges During Interviews
Interviewing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xSl3v4XxzE
Designed.org
https://www.designed.org
 
 
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Special thanks to: Hannah Xu, Izwan Ismail, Kimberly Mak, Mel Sweet, Jasmine Rosen, Yichen He, Kristine Yuen, Matthew Holloway, Nic Bertino, Jenann Pham, Dylan Lew, Diancheng Hu, and many friends who contributed.
 
 
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