# Product designer salary: $174,000–$248,400 a year

Every number below comes from 292 tracked live postings whose title matches "product designer". No surveys, no self-reports — listed salaries only, in US dollars.

Measured September 2026 · n=143 US postings with salary.

## Findings

- The median product designer posting offers $174,000–$248,400 a year (n=143).
- 53.4% of the 292 live postings matching "product designer" are remote.
- Level 4 product designers (building AI systems) list $180,000–$240,000, vs $169,000–$238,100 at Level 1.

## Median salary by seniority (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Intern | 0 | not enough data |
| Junior | 0 | not enough data |
| Mid-level | 12 | $169,000–$243,900 |
| Senior | 82 | $166,000–$231,000 |
| Lead | 43 | $200,000–$268,000 |

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

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Remote | 78 | $180,000–$251,000 |
| On-site / hybrid | 65 | $166,600–$234,250 |

## Companies hiring product designers

- [Palantir](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/palantir) (13)
- [Adobe](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/adobe) (12)
- [Stripe](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/stripe) (10)
- [Zip](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/zip) (7)
- [Figma](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/figma) (6)
- [Moniepoint](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/moniepoint) (6)
- [OpenAI](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/openai) (6)
- [Duolingo](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/duolingo) (5)

## Method

US-dollar postings whose title contains "product designer", with both salary bounds listed. This page exists because 143 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: postings at tech companies tracked by Level. Not the whole labor market — do not cite as a national average.

Refreshed automatically; this edition is measured September 2026. Small-n slices move a lot — read the n column first.

## Product designer salary questions, answered from the data

**What is the median product designer salary?**

Across 143 live US postings for product designers with a listed USD salary, measured September 2026, the median offer is $174,000–$248,400 a year. This is the tracked catalog, not the whole labor market.

**How many product designers jobs are remote?**

53.4% of the 143 live postings are marked remote by the employer, measured September 2026.

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

In this sample, 1 postings are Level 4 (building AI systems) and 152 are Level 1 (AI is not the work). See the AI level breakdown below for the median in each band. Measured September 2026.

Source: https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/product-designer