How much do you earn

 hi today I'm going to talk about theinterior designer's salary if you want to find out how I increased my annualsalary by ten thousand pounds in just one year keep watching this video I'mUla Burgiel and I'm an interior designer based in London I used to workfor all the top interior design companies in London and now run my owninterior design business hit the subscribe button and make sure YouTubenotifies you next time I'm going to release a video with more tips so let'sstart with the junior entry level positions in the interior designindustry I've done research for this video on websites like the glass door payscale indeed an zip recruiter so the junior interior designers tend to makefrom sixteen to twenty four thousand pounds a year or if you thinking ofAmerica it's somewhere between twenty and thirty one thousand dollars per yearthis salary mostly depends on the size and the prestige of the company and yourown portfolio so the tasks for the entry-levelinterior design jobs are simple and less complicated tasks where you can reallylearn the first steps in the industry they may ask you to all the samples forthe studio or organize meetings with potential suppliersit's about assisting the more senior members of the team in preparingpresentations and technical drawings if you're skilled with CAD or Revit andsometimes you might be preparing CAD blocks or preparing some kind of simpleplans as well now we can move one level up to mid-weight interior designerssalary the lowest mid weight interior designer salary would be aroundtwenty-five thousand pounds the medium one will be around 30 to 35 and thehigher page mid weight inter designers can earn up to forty thousand pounds ayear so in the u.s. the salary for the mid-weight designer will be starting from $32,000 a year the medium one would beforty five and you can earn up to fifty four thousand dollars per year and againthis really depends on your experience your skills and also a little bit on thesize of your company but there is a trick to earn more as a mid weight intoyour designer if you find this one really special skill that you have it'skind of like your superpower you can really increase your salary so forexample.

If your hand sketching is just amazing and makes all the presentationslook better or you can make these photoshopped mood boards or finishesboards so well but they just sell the project it's highly likely that you willbe able to get a little bit more this is actually how I increased myannual salary by ten thousand pounds in just one year of my career frompreparing just simple CAD drawings and detailed drawings I've learned how tosketch three-dimensional spaces and design in two interviews I really soldmyself as this very creative conceptual designer that you can trust with theconcept design I made this course because I know how difficult it is tofigure out how to progress in the interior design company on your own soif you're interested go to ulaburgiel.com and sign up for a course yourmajor task will be assisting the senior designer in designing and preparingthe presentations so you will do anything from preparing sample andfinishes boards to preparing InDesign presentations CAD drawings filingfilling out all the schedules: finishes schedule, sanitaryware shedule,ironmongery shedule. There is a lot of Excel spreadsheets in interior design thething worth noting is that you may not be invited to the client presentationsit depends on a company but in a bigger company do probably you'd be yourmanager who actually goes takes your presentation and goes to present it tothe client you can also do CAD drawings and both the schematic simple designdrawings and also detailed drawings but if you doinga lot of CAD work or Revit work you probably be called a CAD technicianor CAD designer but the salary will probably stay the same and how about thesenior interior designers salary senior interior designers tend to make from fortyto fifty thousand thousand a year with the highest salaries being sixtysixty-five but there is not a lot of them in America the salary would be fromfifty five thousand dollars per year to seventy threethis can go up even to eighty five thousand dollars per year all thesefigures are based on London or New York salaries anywhere else the salaries willtend to be slightly lower so the usual tasks you would be being responsible for theentire project designing it presenting to the client getting feedback talkingto everyone else involved in the project delegating all the tasks learningmanaging a loss a lot of managing if you're working for a large internationalcompany there is a high chance that there is a lot more levels to climb thesize of the design directors really vary by country and the actual city whereyou're working and there is not a lot of informationabout it because it tends to be quite but usually they make around ninety thousand pounds per year or more and also if you're in America they can makearound one hundred ten thousand dollars per year and much much more so depending on where you want to gowhere you want to be me there are different levels of interior designerssalaries out there it's always easier to get a raise by changing companies rather than asking for a raise in the same company because in your current companythey know you and they kind of remember you as the person could join the companyfour years ago and it's very difficult to sometimes change their minds whereasif you apply to a new company with your new and improved skills with yourbeautiful amazing portfolio there is a higher chance to get the higher salarythe skills that I found to be the best in terms of getting bigger and highersalary are definitely the great concept thinking coming up with new ideas andone of the biggest superpowers I think it's still hand sketching and if youreally learn hand sketching interiors really well that's something that ispriceless every company wants it because it makes the presentations so muchbetter.

So I've put all this information together and created this interiordesign course that will teach you all the skills that are very invaluable inthe interior design industry so if you want to learn how to sketch how to drawthis beautiful three-dimensional spaces or do amazing concept work sign up to myinterior design course make sure you find your amazing skill your superpowerto get the higher salary thank you so much for watching hit thesubscribe button and make sure YouTube notifies you next time I'm going torelease.