# Design salary: $150,000–$204,700 a year

Every number below comes from 1,452 tracked live design postings. No surveys, no self-reports. Listed salaries only, in US dollars.

Measured November 2026 · n=567 US postings with salary.

## Findings

- The median design posting offers $150,000–$204,700 a year (n=567, USD).
- 28.7% of the 1,452 live design postings are remote.
- The middle half of postings (25th–75th percentile) top out between $176,000–$249,300 a year. The median alone hides how wide that spread is.
- Builds AI (AI Level 4) design roles list $220,920–$311,890, vs $143,000–$195,000 at Little AI (AI Level 1).

## Median salary by seniority (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Intern | 3 | $85,170–$85,170 |
| Junior | 17 | $107,400–$130,000 |
| Mid-level | 105 | $120,000–$160,169 |
| Senior | 320 | $150,000–$205,000 |
| Lead | 92 | $185,500–$260,000 |

## Remote vs on-site (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Remote | 186 | $172,000–$225,000 |
| On-site / hybrid | 381 | $140,000–$190,700 |

## Building AI vs working around it

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Builds AI (AI Level 4) | 1 | $220,920–$311,890 |
| Little AI (AI Level 1) | 354 | $143,000–$195,000 |

## Companies hiring design roles

- [Amazon](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/amazon) (148)
- [Capital One](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/capital-one) (33)
- [Wood](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/wood) (32)
- [GovTech Singapore](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/govtech-singapore) (27)
- [Thales](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/thales) (26)
- [SpaceX](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/spacex) (24)
- [Airbus](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/airbus) (23)
- [Ubisoft](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/ubisoft) (20)

## Method

US-dollar postings with both salary bounds listed. This page exists because 567 such postings clear the 50-posting floor Level requires before publishing a dedicated salary page. Below that, the median moves too much between ingestion cycles to be a citable number.

Sample: design postings at tech companies tracked by Level (1,452 live postings in this category on the measured date). Not the whole labor market. Do not cite as a national average.

All amounts are USD per year. Every median and quartile above excludes hourly-rate postings (a listed maximum under $1,000, almost always an hourly rate, not a salary) and mid-range postings that are neither clearly hourly nor clearly annual (maximum between $1,000 and $10,000). Mixing either into an annual median would understate the real number. The middle 50% of postings top out between $176,000–$249,300 (25th–75th percentile).

Refreshed automatically; this edition is measured November 2026. Small-n slices move a lot. Read the n column first.

## Design salary questions, answered from the data

**What is the median design salary?**

Across 567 live US postings for design roles with a listed USD salary, measured November 2026, the median offer is $150,000–$204,700 a year. This is the tracked catalog, not the whole labor market.

**How many design roles jobs are remote?**

28.7% of the 567 live postings are marked remote by the employer, measured November 2026.

**Does the AI level of the job change the pay?**

In this sample, 3 postings build AI and 1,025 involve little AI. See the level breakdown below for the median at each level. Measured November 2026.

Source: https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/design

## Cite this page

Level. https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/design. Measured November 2026.

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