Graphic Designers

What do Graphic Designers do?

Design or create graphics to meet specific commercial or promotional needs, such as packaging, displays, or logos. May use a variety of mediums to achieve artistic or decorative effects. Excludes “Web and Digital Interface Designers” (15-1255).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 27-1024)

What our data shows for Graphic Designers

RoleHue publishes 99 salary records for Graphic Designers, across 4 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $106,247 at the 25th percentile to $164,728 at the 75th, a spread of $58,481 around $133,224. Each of those three figures averages the city-level percentiles rather than ranking the pooled records, and weights each city by how many records it holds, so the cities we hold most data for pull them hardest. Measured against that $133,224 figure rather than in dollars (44% of it), that spread is wider than 78% of the roles we cover.

San Francisco, CA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $175,000; New York, NY the lowest at $107,994, a gap of $67,006. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $67,006, wider than the $58,481 band within cities: for Graphic Designers, which metro a record comes from separates our numbers more than where a record sits within its own metro.

No single metro carries most of this: the largest share is New York, NY, with 45 of the 99 records we publish for this role (45%). Evidence clears 25 records in 2 of the 4 cities; for the rest, the city median we show rests on fewer records than that.

Salary Overview

Weighted average across all cities with available data. Based on 99 data points.

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