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About Careers

Our home page described the rising need for instructional designers in the workplace, with a 3.52% job growth in the last year.

Salary Average

According to ZipRecruiter, the average annual pay for an instructional designer in the United States is $79,956 a year. ZipRecruiter is seeing salaries as high as 131,500 and as low as $38,000. However, the current salary range lies between $61,000-$93,500 across the United States.

Job Titles

Common Instructional Design titles include:

  • Instructional Designer
    • Typical job responsibilities may include:
      1. Creating engaging learning activities and compelling course content
      2. Working with subject matter experts and identifying the target audience’s training needs
      3. Applying tested instructional design theories, practice, and methods
  • Learning Strategist
    • Typical job responsibilities include:
      1. Work with clients to guide the development of learning strategies and delivery of learning programs, experiences and processes at all levels of the client organization throughout the life cycle of the engagement.
  • Learning and Development Consultant
    • Typical job responsibilities include:
      1. Manage the planning, design and implementation/delivery of all Learning and Development requirements.
  • eLearning Designer
    • Typical job responsibilities include:
      1. Developing high-quality interactive eLearning modules
      2. Creating quizzes, mini-games and meaningful learning interactions using a variety of technology tools.
  • Training Specialist
    • Typical job Responsibilities include:
      1. Identify and assess training needs within a company.
      2. Plan, organize and implement a range of training activities.
      3. Train new hires as well as veteran employees.