Motionographer: Motion Graphic Design Census

The folks at Motionographer are hosting a salary survey for professionals in Motion Graphic Design, Animation, Visual Effects and Film-making, called the 2009 Motion Graphic Design Census. The online survey will be hosted at Motionographer for the month of December. We’ll then be publishing the results in 2010 and plan on continuing the survey as a yearly effort in order to track salary, rates, and other relevant issues.

Why spend the time to fill out the survey? One reason … If you’re a designer, you will have noticed that the AIGA has never truly identified and defined our field of work in it’s annual salary surveys. It has always classified positions as entry level designer, designer, senior designer, art director, creative/design director, owner/partner/principal and solo designer – positions geared towards its base of print-designers. This leaves out producers, animators, cg artists, storyboard artists, and quite a few other job types related to our industry. Other membership-based organizations like the Broadcast Designer’s Association or AICP also leave out whole segments of our colleagues, and do not make their information accessible to the public.