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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. Used by 3,200+ designers.
- Salary ranges by level (junior, mid, senior) across major cities in the US and internationally
- Step-by-step framework for knowing whether you're underpaid — and by how much
- Word-for-word negotiation scripts for offers, raises, and counteroffers
- The factors that move your salary the most (it's not just years of experience)
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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.
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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.
2
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.
3
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's for
Made For Designers At Every Stage
Whether you’re evaluating your first offer or negotiating a senior role — this is for you.
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
Six resources in one PDF to take you from blank page to polished case study.
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.
Real results
What Designers Are Saying
3,200+ designers have downloaded this guide. Here’s what happened next.
Honestly, every time I get to the offer stage, I have no idea what to do. I have just been accepting what they give me out of fear of losing out on the offer.Now I am much more confident in negotiating for what I’m worth!
April D.
Brand Designer in London, UK
I am striking out on my own to freelance, and setting my rate seems like a shot in the dark because there is so little information out there, and it’s confusing. With this guide, I can finally feel confident putting together my price sheet.
John S.
New Freelance Designer, Boston, MA, USA
I am getting to the final rounds of hopefully my first design job, and I’ve been dreading the offer because I don’t know what to do with it. I’m so glad I did research and found this guide! Now I’m excited to hopefully land something.
Li S.
Recent University Graduate, Melbourne, Australia
About Path Unbound
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Download 10 fill-in-the-blank UI/UX case study templates — complete with writing prompts, before/after examples, and a recruiter review checklist. Used by 3,200 designers.
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