Related Research already done

   While salary is simply one measure of my research, it is so because it is, literally, the “coin of the realm”. With this in mind (and if you are a regular reader of the blog you may recall this from just a week or so ago) I dipped into, collected and synthesized what the department of labor had to say about Illustrators and Graphic Designers.
   To have come across this nugget today seemed a treasure trove. For a decade now the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) has been doing the survey annually since 2000 on its own. In 2009 they aligned with Aquent. Aquent LLC is a global talent agency headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Since the alignment with Aquent the survey has changed, it should be noted; however, seemingly for the better. Somewhere across the last decade an association with Adobe Corporation was established. Though the latter seems a background association.
   Anyway, if you’re a professional in the field you likely want to be aware of the download-able pdf (now through http://www.issuu.com/).

   Maybe money is the easiest thing to measure? Is it the main thing we’re concerned with? Maybe I really will have to await the results of my own survey to flesh out all the other concerns. Money was not my priority; just one measure. However, the graphic shown is from this current edition and is perhaps the most abstract graph. It seeks to make visual the confidence levels from across this last decade, the twenty hundreds. As an Artie Shaw character from the Laugh In days used to say, peeking out from behind some shrubbery, “very interesting!”. (remember: click to enlarge).

2010 - http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/salary-survey