Creative and Gaming

Creative and Gaming turns a brief into assets or experiences that support a product goal.

AI-assisted summary of published DOU and Djinni analytics

Salary from $1,443 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $2,827 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 976 Last 3 months
Applications per job 37.55 JobNote category match
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Published signal

Graphic / Motion Design proxy + Creative family
$1,600 Graphic / Motion Design median
$1,570 Graphic / Motion median

Hiring Review the brief, constraints, iterations, and outcome behind portfolio pieces.

Candidate Explain the problem, your decisions, and the result—not visuals alone.

Data Graphic/Motion proxy; not an exact speciality median.

Independent salary benchmark

DOU salary survey

Source data
June 2026 · 199 respondents
Role family
Lower quartile$1350
Median$2000
Upper quartile$3000
Year over year +11.1%

Salary range history

Lower quartile Median Upper quartile

Artist, animator, and game-design respondents · monthly net base salary in USD; bonuses excluded; all locations in the published CSV.

Derived from the shortened public salary-survey data published by DOU. Jobnote and DOU vacancy salaries are separate datasets.

Most wanted skills

Counts of active jobs now and salaries.

UX/UI 210 $2090–$3029 Figma 175 $2200–$2962 Adobe Photoshop 116 $1226–$2179 After Effects 76 $1260–$2213 Motion Design 72 $1449–$2222 Design Systems 67 $3097–$3685 Video Editing 60 $1066–$1907 AI 52 $2261–$3585 Product Design 50 $5052–$5247 Analytics 46 $1839–$3236 Prototyping 46 $5243–$5683 Typography 43 $1243–$2261 Mobile App Development 42 $2525–$3322

Where to hire

Sources

  1. Non-technical salaries — summer 2026 Published signal ·
  2. Non-technical salaries — winter 2026 Published signal ·