Got licensed 2 years ago and received a small raise at that time. It's not enough to do anything other than just get by on and I haven't gotten another raise in the last 2 years, so I have been looking around. I figured I might need to look out of state so I interviewed and got an offer from a firm in another state that was only 10% more. This was not enough to relocate for.
Many of the job listing I see that actually post salaries are not significantly more than I make now and are all lower than the data published by AIA on salaries in the field. I don't get it.
I recently interviewed with a government agency, which has a large range for the possible salary that is also under the median salary in my state reported by AIA.
Are people lying to the AIA about their salary? Should I leave the field if I don't want to libe in NYC or California?