3K for Graphic Designer with 3 years experience in total.
Thats the best you can get by now and prepare to stay there for the next 3 years because you almost reach its limit unless you sacrafire work life balance working in some 4a agencies.

You will be dead fish after 3 years with almost zero exposure. Printing production is your final form, try pickup from there see any supplier you able to get close to.

What sport goods? Not adidas, not Nike. Takashima? : Hehe:

This post has been edited by blek: Mar 9 2017, 04:32 AM

not adidas/nike . but 3k damn little . is the designer scene drop dead till like this . how if we grow older max is like 6k? sadzz..

Not design scene drop. The consumer market changes! You have to look around which people controlling the market now. Yes it's China and they are very competing in the market. And continued to expand it's power for the next 5-10 years. Unlike the old western style, people pay for design charges and pay for production cost. Double charges! No matter u like it or not these cina man are in power now. They pay money, they want design their products ready.

Production : 20K for 1000pcs corporate annual report booklets print bind and deliver.
Client: OK! OK!

Designer : 5K for design charges only
Client : why de fuk so expensive? You hardly do anything!!!

Why would a company pay you 6K to do design while a fresh grads or senior can get at 3K? Because you have grown old?

Production are final form of design industry.
I am interior designer so now may know what I'm doing now.

I love to meet any designer exchange our opinion towards the industry. After all design is not a business, it's a community where great people love beautiful things. Make love not War among our industry.

This post has been edited by blek: Mar 9 2017, 06:43 PM

this is true , even intern can do the job . just use the software . thats y im thinking to change my path since still can

If all designers were to keep this belief, we might as well be designing for free liao..

If you the client and get to choose.
Would you be rather look for designer and source your production or have it all under one roof?

Design might be free but production not. It depends on how you play the game.

hahhaa all of u guys are all talk

you might be right but you cant deny the demand and contribution designer to towards a business.
Its growing rapidly!!!

Job Title : Interior Designer
Job Description : site supervision & drawings
Years spent in company : 6 months
Company : Interior Design
Industry : Design & built
Tenure : Permanent
Experience before joining : 0
Salary : RM 2k

I felt 2k kind of low, no ot & commission.
If I were to hop at 1 year experience, whats the salary I should be expecting. Because I supervise & control projects a lot, I've learn a lot on production but when it comes to design I've done not much here.

I felt that I don't have anything to add on to my portfolio for my projects but a lot people said "many designer only know design but don't have experience on site".

Is 2.5k after a year experience is what I should be seeking or I should seek higher up? Help please sifu

As a interior designer myself. Advise you to focus on design for at least two years to explore more on design, use of material. Else you will hard to get back to design after 2years of site supervising. Your creativity will dies. Since you have done 6months in the company. Continued another 6months then only make your decision. Look for company that focus more on design.

I started my 1st job as a designer 10years back and getting paid 1,800 after confirmation. 2k is kinda underpaid for your case. And one more thing is a contractor firm never value designer. So it's hard to get any higher at your company if you want to do design.

Thanks for the advice. Thats what I worry the most, dying of my creativity.
But I realize that firm like mine is actually easy money compare to a design company.
My clients are designers & I earn the most cut out of the project with the least effort.
I could see this is my road to success but this isn't something I enjoy doing very much. At a dilemma.

Interior designers finding client legitly just by connections while contractor have constant flow of projects.
Just something that I've been thinking about. Cause its not like our company did 0 design but very less have the opportunity.
Thoughts?

now you should have wonder why is the design firm is not doing builders works by his own making prof8t out of it. This is your future. But 1st lets put a little more on the design 1st

Job Title : Product Designer
Job Description : Design Product Outlook and Drawing
Years spent in company : 1 Years 8 month
Company : Manufacturing Factory
Industry : Electrical Product
Tenure : Permanent
Experience before joining : 3 Years
Salary : RM 2.8k

I'm 28 married and for that salary I can't even buying house. How to do?

Lets take a look at my journey on working experience.

2013--> After graduate, working at printing company as graphic designer and production manager. Salary Rm1300

2015--> After jobless about 3 month(personal matter), working back as creative marketing designer at boutique. Salary RM1500

2015-current--> Working at factory as Product Designer, starting salary Rm2.5k. After 1 year now 2.8k.

As start working at factory I manage to save money and get married at 2016. Now, focusing on buying house. But with that current salary, its quite hard to find house at Shah Alam/Setia Alam/Klang area because the price is crazy.

I ask people if want properties at that area, u at least need 6k income. For apartment 850sf already 300k that around 1.4k monthly, I'm targeting on landed house after survey all above 400k. Must atleast 2k monthly for house pay, so with the current salary i give up. 2 years more before i turn 3 series.

Any chance how to get higher pay in this industry?

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This post has been edited by mmyang: May 21 2017, 02:43 AM

Job Title : Head of Product
Job Description : App Design, Web Design, Web App Design, UI, UX, User Flow, Manage other designers & mobile developers, User Studies, Growth Hacking, Branding, a bit of Graphic Design and much more (phew, I just realized I do a lot of things )
Years spent in company : 1 Years 3 month
Company : GPS Tracker, Advanced Telematics app
Industry : Apps/Software
Tenure : Permanent
Experience before joining : 5-6 Years
Salary : 5 digits

This post has been edited by destfull: Apr 3 2017, 02:01 PM

Wow, 5 digit salary.
I think maybe ur job quite tough rite?

If monthly salary 10k wow, i can buy house now. I wanna be like u.

Real 1-leg kick master you, @destfull

What's working in a GPS like?

wow 5k ! Does Graphic design had a good market rate in M'sia ? cause I'm planning to study graphic design but i heard that the market rate here is low ...... and I heard that many people who gets low paid salary .