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 $1,361 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $2,832 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 767 Last 3 months
Applications per job 45.72 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 57 $1785–$2889 Figma 50 $1605–$2664 Adobe Photoshop 33 $1238–$2247 After Effects 28 $1208–$2211 Analytics 21 $1825–$3286 Motion Design 19 $1485–$2323 Product Design 19 $2463–$3910 Unity 19 $1758–$3452

Where to hire

Sources

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