Web and Digital Interface Designers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($47,840) to the 90th ($192,180). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 111,400 people in May 2024, 0.07% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 27,210 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 44.8% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Washington, whose location quotient of 3.07 says this work is 3.07 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $64,990 at the 25th percentile, $98,090 at the middle, $141,860 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $144,340, a ratio of 4.0 to 1. Where a specific job offer lands on that range says more about the role's level than the occupation's headline median does.

Pay by state

The state spread for Web and Digital Interface Designers runs from the $130,240 median in California down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (27,210 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Web and Digital Interface Designers stands number 248 by employment and number 135 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Computer and Mathematical Occupations, the group median wage is $103,790 across 21 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 5% less than its group median, and it supplies 2.1% of the group's 5,192,870 jobs. In 11 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $98,090, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 13,460 jobs, 12.1% of the national total. Below, the biggest employers come first; the pay table after it only counts metros with 500 or more jobs in the occupation, so its leader is a real market and not a statistical artifact.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $80,500 a year, against $200,650 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Anyone relocating for this work should price the destination metro's table row, not the national median, before signing anything.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $8,174 a month before tax, $3,773 biweekly, $1,886 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($64,990) to the 75th ($141,860) is worth $76,870 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $107,899 would sit between the median ($98,090) and the 75th percentile ($141,860), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $64,990, is $33,100 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

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