Product Designer salary
What a product designer actually earns, from 514 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 2026-07-23.
Switch the market above to see product designer pay in the 3 countries our sources cover, each with its own cost of living. The trend, seniority, and state detail below are United States data, where the official record runs deepest.
What the number means
Product designer posts a blended US median near 126,000 dollars, well above the graphic- and UX-designer bands, because the title now means someone who owns a product surface end to end, from research to shipped interface, rather than someone who makes screens pretty. The premium is for the ownership, and it is real: the gap to graphic design runs to tens of thousands of dollars for work that shares most of its tools. If you are a designer weighing the move, the pay is the argument, and the route from graphic and UX design is a matter of evidence, not new software.
Open product designer roles
Live openings tagged to this occupation, from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source.
- Mobile UI Designer (South Korea)Bjak · South KoreaRemoteJul 23
- Product DesignerLangchain · Boston, MAJul 23
- Product DesignerSupabase · RemoteRemoteJul 22
- Sr. Staff Product Designer, Identity Security Platform & SystemsServiceNow · Santa Clara, USJul 22
- Product DesignerGranola · London$148k–$202kJul 22
- Product DesignerExperian · London, GBJul 21
By seniority
Posted-median pay by seniority signal in the title, from our corpus. Noisy at the edges where sample sizes are small.
By country
- United States$103,819 – $162,701 · median $131,012
- Canada$85,591 – $130,628 · median $110,377
- United Kingdom$59,896 – $84,022 · median $71,126
Top-paying US states
OEWS median by state, highest first.
- New Yorkmedian $142,192
- Californiamedian $130,240
- Washingtonmedian $126,960
- Massachusettsmedian $107,560
- Utahmedian $99,300
- Texasmedian $89,630
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Move into or out of product designer
- graphic designer → ux designermeasured route
Related salaries
- UX Designer salary$129,764 median
- Graphic Designer salary$68,638 median
- Software Engineer salary$181,991 median
Quick answers
How much do product designers make?
The blended US median is about 126,000 dollars, above UX and graphic design, reflecting end-to-end product ownership.
What is the difference between a product designer and a UX designer?
Increasingly little in title, but product designers are expected to own outcomes and metrics, not only interfaces, and the pay reflects it.
How do you become a product designer?
Usually from UX or graphic design, on evidence of shipped, owned work rather than a new toolset.
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 15-1255. Live corpus 514 observations, 2026-07-23. Definitions in the glossary.