Urban designer
| Highest | $9,450 / mo · Switzerland |
|---|---|
| Experience | 5+ yrs |
| Degree | Required |
| First paycheck | 4 years bachelor + 2 years master |
Pay in the destination countries
Monthly, in US dollars. Each country is an Imora admission package — open one for that route's fees, language requirement and deadline.
| Country | Monthly |
|---|---|
| SwitzerlandIELTS 6.5 · CHF 0.9–8k | $9,450max |
| Hong KongIELTS 6.0–6.5 · HK–200k | $9,000 |
| SingaporeIELTS 6.5 · SGD 18–35k | $9,000 |
| United KingdomIELTS 6.0–7.0 · £11–38k | $9,000 |
| NorwayIELTS 6.0–6.5 · NOK 130–260k | $8,750 |
| United StatesTOEFL 80–100 · $10–70k | $8,550 |
What does the day look like?
An urban designer works at district scale: masterplans, design codes, building massing studies, street sections, public realm strategies, planning application review, site analysis, community consultation records and committee reports. The tools named for this work include Autodesk AutoCAD, Revit, Rhino, SketchUp, ESRI ArcGIS, QGIS, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and planning casework databases.
The normal pattern is daytime office work around 40 hours per week. Some time goes to site visits, surveys, photography and evening community consultation events. The glamorous part, sketching places and shaping ideas, is a small share of paid hours. Most of the day is redrafting drawings after comments, writing justification text, checking codes, coordinating with traffic, heritage and utilities staff, and answering objections. There is no regular night shift or clinical-style on-call rota, but deadlines and public exhibitions create peaks.
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