Brand Designer salary
What a brand designer actually earns, from 151 live job postings blended with the official US OEWS (Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics) wage anchor. Pick a market for its median and range, then read the seniority split, the trend, and the country comparison below. Updated 2026-09-06.
What the number means
A brand designer earns a blended US median near 124,709 dollars, with the typical middle running from 96,840 dollars to 151,727 dollars. The official OEWS median is 61,300 dollars, under the posted figure, because the advertised roles skew senior or well-funded. The official trend has moved up about 18 percent since 2019. Demand is rated high, and 9% of postings are fully remote. The nearest adjacent move on our skill graph is graphic designer, at 80 percent coverage; the instrument maps the rest.
Open brand designer roles
Live openings tagged to this occupation, from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source.
Brand Designer at PlanetscaleRemote - USA$170k–$220k1d agoApply- Product & Brand Designer at V7Labs.comLondon2d agoApply
Brand Designer, Creative Studio at NotionNew York, New York · Remote3d agoApply
Brand Designer (Santiago) at AgendaProSantiago, Región Metropolitana3d agoApply- Brand Designer at MetaviewLondon4d agoApply
Principal Brand Designer (Buenos Aires) at ZirconTechBuenos Aires4d agoApply
By seniority
Posted-median pay by seniority signal in the title, from our corpus. Noisy at the edges where sample sizes are small.
Switzerland · official wage bands
median CHF 8'730/month
Swiss postings do not state pay, so these are not posted salaries: they are the federal wage survey (Lohnstrukturerhebung 2024) for the ISCO group 21 Naturwissenschaftler, Mathematiker und Ingenieure: standardized gross monthly, full-time, 13th salary included pro rata. The band covers the whole occupation group, which is coarser than this occupation alone.
Annual ≈ CHF 104'760 at the median. Source: Bundesamt für Statistik, LSE 2024.
Top-paying US states
OEWS median by state, highest first.
- California$118,680
- New York$74,530
- Utah$59,010
- Pennsylvania$52,990
Roles that pay more, that these skills already reach
Median pay from each destination’s own postings, with the readiness a brand designer profile already covers.
- 518 open product designer roles$153,341 median · +$28,632 · 34% readiness
- 217 open creative director roles$135,457 median · +$10,748 · 65% readiness
Every measured move out of this role, ranked by readiness: alternative careers for a brand designer.
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Related salaries
- Graphic Designer salary$71,940 median
- Creative Director salary$135,457 median
- Motion Designer salary$110,583 median
Quick answers
How much does a brand designer make?
The blended US median is about 124,709 dollars, with a typical range from 96,840 dollars to 151,727 dollars, against an official OEWS median of 61,300 dollars.
Is brand designer a good career in 2026?
Demand for the role is rated high in our July 2026 corpus, with 9% of postings fully remote. The pay is shown above by seniority and by country.
What can a brand designer move into?
The nearest adjacent role on our skill graph is graphic designer, at 80 percent skill coverage. Run the instrument for the full set of reachable moves.
Method: bands are the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of live US postings with stated pay, shrunk toward the official OEWS anchor by sample size (the “blended” figure). Trend is the OEWS annual median for SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code 27-1024. Live corpus 151 observations, 2026-09-06. Definitions in the glossary.