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My institution pays about 60% on top of my salary for my direct benefits and payroll taxes. The percentage is higher (up to 110%) for lower paid employees since some costs are fixed (like health insurance). They charge an “overhead” rate they have negotiated with the federal government of an additional 50% on top of both salary and indirect costs which pays for office space, computing, the library, the salaries for IT support, etc. All in, my charged rate is about 2.5 times my pre-tax rate.
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Some designers account for the different levels of experience in their team by using a “blended” rate, while others charge different hourly rates for different team members. I don’t think anyone here is knocking designers nor what they charge, and it’s not elitist to say “I work in tech/science/public health”. We’re all here faithfully reading our favorite design blog so we all must value what art/great design brings to our world. True, many of us cannot afford it, but that doesn’t mean we don’t value it.
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Your dreams matter to us, and we’re excited to be a part of your journey towards creating the life you’ve been dreaming of. The startup’s founders also want to create tools to monitor and block software such as cryptocurrency miners and ransomware. “We don’t need to use new technology to make this work. What we need is to actually take the tools available and put them in the right place,” Sosonkin said. Be it community gardens, village stores or repair cafés, there are many ways of putting your hands to use and working together to make our world a better place. That’s why this year’s Social Design Award is looking for projects and actions that promote the common good.
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So would any designers even want to help style only 3 shelves? It helps me think about goals and what I could save up for. For what it’s worth, no designer (except maybe the ones working just for themselves or really high up in a company) gets to take home even half of what the company charges for their time. My company bills $150-$175 for my time (I can’t remember the exact number), and I get to take home about $30/hour of that (my salary is $58,000/year with about 4 years of experience). So as far as personalized design services go, we should just call them what they are – a luxury service for a very select group of rich folks. There is no salaried job in this country except perhaps high-end medical and Wall street that would pay a salary sufficient to afford 16K for 3 small rooms design (incl 2K for purchasing and vendor communication).
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Karly, thank you for your perspective and reminding us that housekeeping is back-breaking work. I would add, it’s one job in which you do not typically get a 401k contribution or pension. People who work self-employed in service industries not only have to make enough to pay their bills now, but eventually to save enough to retire when their bodies give out and they can’t do the work anymore.
Can you do an update post on how much Sara’s design update costs when you add in price of furniture, construction and labor, etc? It would be great to get the full picture of what we should budget for if we are doing a remodeling project. As an educated interior designer working for a small business, super thankful to see this comment. Thank goodness for free blogs as resources to help us figure it out ourselves. Also, would love to see more process, behing the scenes stuff on Instagram. I’ve been wodering for months whatever happened to Sara’s house or if I missed the reveals.
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Definitely Kelly, some designers will offer stand-alone consultations to help make these decisions. To MelissaB, just be sure to look for the evidence in the designer’s portfolio and education that they’ll be able to confidently help you. I’m an interior designer, and instead of clients paying the high costs for an architect, we can often partner with a draftsman and engineer to finalize the drawings they need for projects like you’re describing. ” feelings relate more to not knowing previously how much it costs to hire an interior designer (never having worked with one before). I fully support paying people living wages, it just seems clear that use of interior design services is not something I (or most other people, I would imagine!) can afford. Velinda here, and today I’m talking spreadsheets, budgets, and survey data – all the good stuff that comes with the design process for an interior.
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Your numbers assume the designer is billing for all of their time which is never the case. How do they think these clients find them- magic fairies?! You have to spend money to make money and a larger part of that is marketing costs (social media, networking, blogging all take tons of TIME!). You’re right, Talia, it’s as important for designers to weed out the wrong client as it for clients to weed out designers that aren’t a fit. I hired a designer through Homepolish a few years ago.
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It’s kind of a hard problem for designers and it’s why I didn’t take the plunge myself into owning a design business. Prices are about what I would expect (I was assuming it would be $200+/hr). And while understandable and totally deserved, it makes me sad that I’ll probably never be in a place to afford it. I have 3 shelves in the living room that I want styled, but I can see how quickly that would add up to be out of my price range. And I assume designers would rather have bigger projects with more control.
Luckily, our designer friends had some solutions and are budgeting in contingency or overestimating in their proposals to allow for the X factor of clients’ particularities. Regardless of your background, our unique blend of hands-on design and business applications allows for real-life experience so you can confidentially begin designing or staging interiors immediately after graduation. As an architect, I alway tell friends and family to bring me or show me lots of pictures of what they are looking at and what they would want to change. I can then let them know roughly what work needs to be done and what they can expect to spend.
When it’s an individual, it’s a lot harder sell than when a corporation is paying for it. I cannot charge less than $100/hr or I would go negative. I have to have e&o insurance and pay for expensive drafting/design programs that take a hefty computer on top of the expenses others have stated.
Non-design school trained team members like Arlyn, Bowser, and Jess are all self-made success stories that exemplify the fact that all you need is a Pinterest board, a good flea market or two, a pinch of taste, and the time/patience to pull it off. And don’t worry, Sara is being forced to design her own bedroom and master bathroom, so she’s not sitting in lap of luxury – aka my lap – for too much longer. She’ll pull it off though, she’s done it before (see her old apartment below). Though the specifics varied, a common occurrence was evident; most designers have this element addressed/outlined in their contracts.
I’m a designer with a master’s in architecture. I deal with people’s homes and their family dynamics. I have to build trust and act as a therapist all while managing the construction, knowing codes, getting their home to function again (not just pretty), and making it beautiful. Thank you Emily and the team for talking about this touchy subject, I love this transparency you continuosly share here! After all people, we live in capitalism, that’s all I have to say.
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