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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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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

Buffer’s Transparent salaries

Salary

https://buffer.com/salaries

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

Gitlab Compensation Calculator

Salary

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

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

G lobal 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

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

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

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

Never split the difference - Chris Voss

Books

Negotiation

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

Community

https://www.designed.org

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

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

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

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

Design Pay Asia 2023 Report

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