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Know Your Worth: AIA launches campaign tackling the unpaid internship

Know Your Worth: AIA launches campaign tackling the unpaid internship

The AIA’s Center for Emerging Professionals has launched a new campaign that seeks to address the issue of unpaid internships. The campaign aims to inform “all generations of architects” of the significant contributions that Emerging Professionals bring to the field as well as the value of being paid a substantial amount for one’s work

“That’s the legacy and history of our profession—this apprenticeship,” said Klimatic Architecture principal Susan Schaefer Kliman in one of two campaign videos featured below, “but just because it’s an apprenticeship and a time where you’re still learning, doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t get paid.”

The campaign page provides resources such as a direct link to the Fair Labor Standards Act, the AIA Code of Ethics, and as well as information on AIA’s “intern tilting page.” AIA also equipped users with a Compensation Survey Salary Calculator, a tool used to provide details on compensation information by region and firm size.  

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