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Find Out What UI/UX Designers Are Actually Paid - and How to Get More

Download our complete UI/UX designer salary guide - real salary ranges by experience level and city, how to benchmark whether you’re underpaid, and negotiation scripts that work.

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The Problem

Does This Sound Familiar?⁠

You’re doing real work. You just don’t know if you’re being paid fairly for it.

You Have No Idea What the Market Actually Pays

You’ve seen ranges online that run from $60K to $180K. Without knowing what applies to your specific level, city, and company type, those numbers are useless to you.

You Accepted an Offer - and Later Found Out It Was Low

Someone at a similar company with similar experience is earning 20 - 30% more. You didn’t know to ask. You won’t make that mistake again.

Negotiation Feels Impossible Without Data

You want to ask for more, but you don’t know what “more” looks like for your role - or how to have the conversation without feeling like you’re risking the offer.

Who It Is For

Made for Designers at Every Stage

Junior and Entry-Level Designers

Just received your first offer and want to know whether the number is fair before you sign. This guide gives you the data to evaluate it confidently.

Mid-Level Designers Ready to Move Up

Preparing for your next salary review or job search and want a data-backed case for what you should be earning at your experience level.se your skills quickly without years of industry work.

Senior Designers Targeting Leadership Roles

Benchmarking compensation as you move into senior, staff, or art director territory - where the ranges vary most and negotiation matters most.

Freelancers Setting Their Rates

Translating salary data into freelance day rates and project pricing, or cross-checking whether your current rates are competitive with what staff designers earn.

What You Get

Everything Inside the Free Download

Salary Ranges by Level and City

Junior, mid-level, and senior UI/UX designer salaries across major US markets and international cities. Real ranges broken out by experience level - not averages that hide the full picture.

Salary-Boosting Factors That Actually Work

The variables that move compensation most: company stage, industry, specialization, and negotiation timing. How to position yourself on the right side of each one before your next conversation.

How to Know If You're Underpaid

A step-by-step framework for benchmarking your current compensation against market data - and calculating the gap clearly enough to walk into a salary conversation with a specific number.

Negotiation Scripts and Strategies

Word-for-word scripts for the most common salary conversations: counter-offering, asking for a raise mid-year, responding to a low initial offer, and negotiating benefits beyond base pay.

Bonus

Freelance Rate Converter

How to translate salary benchmarks into freelance day rates and project pricing - so whether you’re staff or independent, you’re working from the same market data.

Bonus

Offer Evaluation Checklist

Salary is one number. Total compensation is another. How to evaluate an offer’s full value: equity, PTO, remote flexibility, benefits, growth trajectory, and the things most designers overlook when comparing offers.

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