FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 21, 2008

SEGD Announces Compensation & Billing Survey

Washington, DC - SEGD (the Society for Environmental Graphic Design), an international non- profit educational foundation, announced the publication of the SEGD Compensation & Billing Survey.

As early as 1987, an SEGD survey revealed that 89% of member firms were having difficulty hiring qualified entry-level environmental graphic designers. And, in 1994, an SEGD Design Practices Survey provided the first glimpse into average EGD salaries and firm profitability. Two decades after the first survey, the availability of EGD talent is still an issue, and discus- sions continue to focus on EGD compensation, how it tracks with allied design disciplines, and how to ensure that new and seasoned EGD practitioners develop the competencies required to practice EGD effectively today.

The SEGD Compensation & Billing Survey sprang from these issues, and was conducted to develop:

• Salary and compensation data that would allow EGD employers to benchmark EGD salaries with those of architects, industrial designers, graphic designers, and other closely allied professions
• A set of EGD competencies that could serve as a guide for recruiting and hiring environmental graphic designers at all levels of experience
• Information about typical EGD billing practices and profitability, the relative profitability of EGD firms vs. other allied disciplines, and data linking profitability to compensation levels in the field