Salary Survey: User Experience Professionals Earn Good Money
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010527.html

Nielsen, Jakob
Alertbox
2001

Abstract:

A survey of 1,078 user experience professionals finds that usability specialists make more money than designers and writers in the same field. In all three areas, salaries are highest in the U.S., lower in Canada and Asia, and much lower in Europe and Australia.