Design / UX

Design / UX turns a brief into assets or experiences that support a product goal.

Salary from $1,419 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $2,681 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 1,337 Last 3 months
Applications per job 46.52 JobNote category match
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Published signal

UI / UX + Product Design + Design family
$2,475 UI / UX + Product Design median
$3,000 Product Design median
$1,730 UI / UX 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 Combined DOU design group; exact role and title change the benchmark. DOU survey categories; exact role mix changes the comparison.

Independent salary benchmark

DOU salary survey

Source data
June 2026 · 358 respondents
Role family
Lower quartile$1600
Median$2500
Upper quartile$3500
Year over year +6.4%

Salary range history

Lower quartile Median Upper quartile
Historical DOU salary range by survey month and year
Survey Lower quartile Median Upper quartile Respondents
$900 $1500 $2500 163
$900 $1600 $2500 238
$900 $1700 $2950 215
$1187 $2000 $3000 275
$1000 $2000 $3200 230
$1138 $2300 $3200 208
$1400 $2362 $3600 386
$1315 $2350 $3450 299
$1400 $2500 $3700 371
$1600 $2500 $3500 358

UI/UX and product designers · 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 308 $2086–$3032 Figma 267 $2215–$2964 Adobe Photoshop 135 $1193–$2143 Design Systems 99 $3173–$3763 Motion Design 96 $1428–$2204 After Effects 88 $1219–$2192 Product Design 79 $5203–$5329 Prototyping 74 $5498–$5903 User Research 64 $4963–$6567 Typography 52 $1189–$2237 AI 51 $2268–$3567

Where to hire

Sources

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