In article . com,
Jay Honeck wrote:

According to information compiled by the usability association in 2005,
annual pay in the field in the United States started at about $49,000 and
rose to about $120,000. The average salary was $86,500.

Sounds great for my son's future career -- but that's the kind of
corporate stupidity that drives me CRAZY. Imagine, paying some
schmuck $120K to be a "Useability" expert, instead of just making the
effort to get input from actual users.

Jay: If I understand the term correctly, the useability expert IS the means
for getting input from actual users. However, users generally don't have
any objective quantitative measures for assessing which features are more
useful or for comparing different capability implementations.

--
Bob Noel
(goodness, please trim replies!!!)