The design hiring market,
by the numbers.
The median Web and Digital Interface Designer (BLS SOC 15-1255) earns $104,000/year as of 2025. Employment is projected to grow 7% over 2024–2034: much faster than average. Sourced from BLS OEWS and Indeed Hiring Lab data. No vibes, no "LinkedIn says" hand-waving. Every figure below links to its source. Looking for open roles instead? See live postings →
Last updated: July 16, 2026
Job Postings Trend — 2020–Present
Indeed has no "Product Design" or "UX Design" sector. Software Development and Arts & Entertainment are the closest available proxies and are not design-specific figures. Index = 100 on Feb 1, 2020, seasonally adjusted. Source: Indeed Hiring Lab (CC BY 4.0), last fetched 2026-07-16.
Posted Wage Growth — 2019–Present
This tracks language in job postings, not paid wages — a different measure than the BLS wage levels shown elsewhere on this page. Indeed publishes no tech or design-specific sector for wage growth, so this is the national US trend across all posted job titles, not a design-specific figure. Year-on-year % change, not seasonally adjusted. Source: Indeed Hiring Lab (CC BY 4.0), last fetched 2026-07-16.
Remote/Hybrid Postings Share — 2019–Present
Indeed has no "Product Design" or "UX Design" sector. Software Development and Arts & Entertainment are the closest available proxies — the same two shown in the Job Postings Trend chart above — and are not design-specific figures. Share of all postings containing remote/hybrid keywords, 7-day trailing average. Source: Indeed Hiring Lab (CC BY 4.0), last fetched 2026-07-16.
Salary Bands — SOC 15-1255
25th/75th percentile bands are pending confirmation of BLS data-type codes 12/14 against a live api.bls.gov pull — not shown until verified rather than estimated. Source: BLS OEWS (api.bls.gov), 2025
Manually-maintained constant — BLS Employment Projections series ID for this SOC hasn't been cracked yet (separate program from OEWS). Reviewed annually when BLS publishes new projections.
Methodology
Wages, employment & outlook come from the Bureau of Labor
Statistics' OEWS program (SOC 15-1255, "Web and Digital Interface Designers"),
pulled from the official api.bls.gov public data API. It's the only
BLS endpoint that's actually automatable, since www.bls.gov blocks
scraping outright. 10-year growth and projected openings come from BLS Employment
Projections, a separate program checked and updated by hand once a year.
The postings trend and remote/hybrid share charts come from Indeed Hiring Lab's Job Postings Index and Remote Tracker (both CC BY 4.0, public data, no scraping or API key required). Indeed's sector taxonomy has no "Product Design" or "UX Design" category, so both charts show "Software Development" and "Arts & Entertainment," the closest available proxies, clearly tagged as such. Neither is a design-specific figure. Treat them as directional context for how adjacent hiring is moving, not a stand-in for the BLS numbers above.
The wage growth chart comes from Indeed Hiring Lab's Wage Tracker (CC BY 4.0). It measures year-on-year growth in wages advertised in postings, controlling for job title — a different measure than the BLS wage levels above, and one where Indeed publishes no design or tech-specific sector at all. This is the national US trend across all posted job titles, shown as directional context for wage momentum, not a design-specific figure.
Nothing on this page is estimated, extrapolated, or simulated. Where a number isn't yet verified against a live source (like the 25th/75th wage percentiles), it's left off rather than guessed. For live, individual open roles, see the Design Job Board.