UX Designer

What does a UX Designer do?

Design digital user interfaces or websites. Develop and test layouts, interfaces, functionality, and navigation menus to ensure compatibility and usability across browsers or devices. May use web framework applications as well as client-side code and processes. May evaluate web design following web and accessibility standards, and may analyze web use metrics and optimize websites for marketability and search engine ranking. May design and test interfaces that facilitate the human-computer interaction and maximize the usability of digital devices, websites, and software with a focus on aesthetics and design. May create graphics used in websites and manage website content and links. Excludes “Special Effects Artists and Animators” (27-1014) and “Graphic Designers” (27-1024).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 15-1255)

What our data shows for UX Designer

RoleHue publishes 59 salary records for UX Designers, across 3 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $118,706 at the 25th percentile to $170,333 at the 75th, a spread of $51,627 around $145,204. Each of those three figures averages the city-level percentiles rather than ranking the pooled records, and weights each city by how many records it holds, so the cities we hold most data for pull them hardest. Measured against that $145,204 figure rather than in dollars (36% of it), that spread is wider than 63% of the roles we cover.

San Jose, CA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $199,980; Irving, TX the lowest at $80,163, a gap of $119,817.

No single metro carries most of this: the largest share is New York, NY, with 27 of the 59 records we publish for this role (46%). Evidence clears 25 records in 1 of the 3 cities; for the rest, the city median we show rests on fewer records than that.

Salary Overview

Weighted average across all cities with available data. Based on 59 data points.

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