UX Designer salary
What a ux designer actually earns, from 526 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.
Switch the market above to see ux designer pay in the 4 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
UX design pay is unusually wide, and the width is the whole story. The 25th-to-75th-percentile band on live US postings runs from about 95,000 to 191,000 dollars, a spread of nearly 100,000, because the title covers everyone from a junior wireframer to a staff designer who owns a product surface. The median, near 127,000 on postings and 98,000 in the official OEWS wage survey, sits well above graphic design, which is exactly why the graphic-to-UX move is one of the most searched career changes on the internet. The gap between the two figures, posted and official, is itself informative: job ads skew toward senior, well-funded roles, so the posted median flatters the typical seat. Read the band, not the headline. Where you land in it depends less on the word “UX” than on whether you can show research and outcomes, not just screens.
Open ux designer roles
Live openings tagged to this occupation, from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source.
Senior Product / UX Designer at GlassFlowBerlin2d agoApply
UX/UI Designer at FreebirdUnited States · Remote2d agoApply
Senior UX Designer (Contract Pool) at Grand StudioUnited States · Remote2d agoApply
UX Designer - League of Legends Studios (League of Legends PC, Teamfight Tactics) at RiotgamesLos Angeles, USA$123k–$172k2d agoApply- UX/UI Designer -FTC – 4 months at UKTVLondon2d agoApply
Lead UX Designer at TechnomilIndia · Remote$14k–$26k3d agoApply
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$92,674$115,577$157,504
- United Kingdom$67,343$78,896$99,352
- Canada$69,626$79,796$109,393
- India$10,439$13,571$19,828
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$130,240
- Washington$126,960
- New York$121,700
- Georgia$100,530
- Texas$89,630
- New Jersey$87,070
Roles that pay more, that these skills already reach
Median pay from each destination’s own postings, with the readiness a ux designer profile already covers.
- 518 open product designer roles$153,341 median · +$37,764 · 65% readiness
- 217 open creative director roles$135,457 median · +$19,880 · 25% readiness
- 37 open ux researcher roles$125,877 median · +$10,300 · 36% readiness
- 9 open human factors engineer roles$125,647 median · +$10,070 · 35% readiness
Every measured move out of this role, ranked by readiness: alternative careers for a ux designer.
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Quick answers
How much do UX designers make?
In live US postings the median is about 127,000 dollars, with a typical range of roughly 95,000 to 191,000. The official BLS OEWS median for the occupation is 98,090, lower because job ads skew toward senior roles.
Do UX designers make more than graphic designers?
Substantially. UX medians run tens of thousands above graphic design, and the field is projected to grow faster, which is why the graphic-to-UX pivot is common.
What is the highest UX designer salary?
The 90th percentile on postings reaches into the low 270,000s in the US, concentrated in staff and principal roles at large tech employers.
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. Unemployment is the 2025 BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) CPS (Current Population Survey) annual-average rate for “Web and digital interface designers.” Live corpus 526 observations, 2026-09-06. Definitions in the glossary.