Voice Career Development & Salary Survey Results from Women in Voice Global
Let’s look at our October survey findings from 2020
Hey WiV Community,
Hope you are enjoying the start of 2021! Last October, Women In Voice Global ran a survey to research our community’s interest in job-related content development and collect some feedback on our current offerings. Over the span of 2 weeks, we have sampled 99 responses from all over the world. These 99 unique voices provided extremely valuable data and insights about the whole WiV Global community.
Demographics
First, let’s see some demographics of our survey sample (N=99):
- 46% were working in the EU (over half of EU respondents were in Spain), and 24% were working in the USA. There are 8%, 7%, and 5% correspondingly in the Asia Pacific, Latin America, and the Rest of the World.
- The majority of survey respondents (63%) had 0–3 years of experience, plus 11% wanting to transition into voice tech. 25% were mid- or senior-level professionals.
- 52% of our sample were holding full-time jobs, and 20+% were working Career Development and Job Search
Career Development and Job Search
Second, the survey shows that WiV is a group of hungry learners and career enthusiasts (which I am not surprised at all!):
- A great majority (84%) were interested in learning new knowledge or skills, and over half were looking for career transition advice or tips from hiring managers and recruiters.
- 62% of respondents thought that receiving job-related information from WiV was “very important” to them, and 30.6% thought it was “somewhat important”.
- Over 62% of our respondents were active in the job market.
Equal Pay, Salary Transparency, and Job Titles
Third, we should talk about pay because it is clear women working in Voice technology believe in equal pay and salary transparency! Keep in mind, the data points below are not sufficient to draw conclusions on pay and salary for a specific title, level of experience or geographic location, but it might be helpful for setting some benchmarks when negotiating with employers.
- The most common job titles were conversational designer, chatbot designer, VUI architect, computational linguist, and UX designer.
- The less common job titles were researcher/professor, software engineer, and product manager.
- Majority of Pays were reported around the $65,000 — $120,000 range. Our higher band was at $175,000, and the lower band landed within $30,000 — $55,000 (all currencies are converted to USD).
- Contract work was usually paid at $45–55/hr.
Next Steps
Want more career and job directions from Women in Voice? Or offering help for others?(even better!!!)
- Join WiV’s Mentorship Matchup by Jan 31, 2021. If you have some industry experience, mentor others! If you are looking for advice and long-term mentorship, apply and connect with a mentor!
- Join the #jobs channel of the WiV Slack and our lively WiV LinkedIn Group for informal job materials.
- Subscribe to our monthly WiV Global Newsletters. We curate information including job postings, seminars and workshops, and local & virtual events.
In Conclusion
We also received positive feedback and compliments from many of your responses. We are grateful to have all of you in a growing inclusive global community, and always determined to improve our work.
In the future, we will distribute other surveys or polling on various topics to learn more about our community and our needs, such as remote work adaptations, international work in voice technology, salary negotiation, workplace diversity, etc. Stay tuned in 2021!
We are always happy to hear your VOICE. Please leave a comment below, if you have any more feedback on our content development or other topics.
If you want to get involved with Job and Career programs for Women in Voice, please reach out to editorial@womeninvoice.org
