Industrial Designer salary
What an industrial designer actually earns, from 116 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
An industrial designer earns a blended US median near 100,224 dollars, with the typical middle running from 74,576 dollars to 135,014 dollars. The official OEWS median is 79,450 dollars, under the posted figure, because the advertised roles skew senior or well-funded. The official trend has moved up about 15 percent since 2019. By seniority, posted pay runs from roughly 76,134 dollars to 117,000 dollars. Demand is rated moderate, and 2% of postings are fully remote. The nearest adjacent move on our skill graph is mechanical engineer, at 48 percent coverage; the instrument maps the rest.
Open industrial designer roles
Live openings tagged to this occupation, from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source.
- Industrial Designer For Experiential Spaces Bogotá (Colombia) at TOP BRANDColombia6d agoApply
Industrial Designer (Lima) at Insight GlobalLima1w agoApply
Industrial Designer at Sereact GmbHStuttgart Schockenriedstr. 171w agoApply
Industrial Designer at Polvora DesignJalisco2w agoApply- Junior Industrial Designer at Simulands AGZürich, Zürich, SwitzerlandAug 1Apply
Industrial Designer, Contract-to-Hire at IdeoSan Francisco, CA$70k–$80kJul 12Apply
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.
- Washington$106,720
- Rhode Island$93,340
- California$93,300
- New York$85,240
Roles that pay more, that these skills already reach
Median pay from each destination’s own postings, with the readiness an industrial designer profile already covers.
- 62 open brand designer roles$124,709 median · +$24,485 · 14% readiness
- 272 open mechanical engineer roles$112,630 median · +$12,406 · 48% readiness
Every measured move out of this role, ranked by readiness: alternative careers for an industrial designer.
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Related salaries
- Mechanical Engineer salary$112,630 median
- Graphic Designer salary$71,940 median
- Brand Designer salary$124,709 median
Quick answers
How much does an industrial designer make?
The blended US median is about 100,224 dollars, with a typical range from 74,576 dollars to 135,014 dollars, against an official OEWS median of 79,450 dollars.
Is industrial designer a good career in 2026?
Demand for the role is rated moderate in our July 2026 corpus, with 2% of postings fully remote. The pay is shown above by seniority and by country.
What can an industrial designer move into?
The nearest adjacent role on our skill graph is mechanical engineer, at 48 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 27-1021. Live corpus 116 observations, 2026-09-06. Definitions in the glossary.