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Things that raise your pay

• Revit and BIM (building information modelling)

  Commercial firms expect it. Residential studios are catching up.

• Healthcare design

  Hospitals and clinics are steady, well-funded and technical.

• LEED (a green building rating system) or WELL (a building wellness standard)

  Asked for on corporate and institutional work.

• Lighting design

  A specialty most designers only half know.

• Kitchen and bath

  The most technical and best-paid corner of residential work.