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Salary instructional designer

  • 07-04-2018 03:15PM
    #1
    CraftySue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 293 ✭✭


    Anyone have experience/ knowledge of the role of instructional designer. What starting salary like, what the job is like, opportunities to advance and into what roles. TIA


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  • #2
    andrewshort89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 ✭andrewshort89


    I have been an instructional designer for an learning consultancy company for about 5 years. Starting salary for an instructional designer would be around 40k but there is quite a high upper limit on that number as it's quite a complex role when you get into it. It's a multidisciplinary role with management opportunities as you could act as the lynchpin role in a multidisciplinary team (writers, graphic designers, developers) which you lead as you oversee the overall curriculum design.

    The primary skills include stakeholder engagement (you have to be able to talk to subject matter experts to help to identify and discuss content that you can develop into training), writing, and office tools (word & powerpoint). It's important to have an eye for graphics but it's not crucial as most teams have designers on them.

    The next step up in small companies would be to become head of instructional design and run the learning department or in a multinational organization you could move into a curriculum developer role. You still create content but work a lot more on curriculum development strategy and business strategy.

    I hope that was helpful


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