Which pays more, Graphic Designer or UX Designer?

The median advertised salary for each is in the table above, along with the 25th and 75th percentiles so you can see the spread rather than one number.

Which has more openings?

Both counts are live and computed at the same moment, so the comparison is like for like.

Postings are read from company career systems continuously; the age row shows how old the listings themselves are.

Side by side

Graphic Designer vs UX Designer

Graphic Designer pays more: a median of $112,000 against $104,500. There is 1.9× more demand for UX Designer. Listings for Graphic Designer move faster — median age 41 days against 51.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Graphic Designer	UX Designer	Gap
Open postings	22,450	41,872	-19,422
Posted this week	1,238	2,780
Median salary	$112,000	$104,500	+$7.5k
25th percentile	$88.5k	$82.5k
75th percentile	$139k	$130k
Salary disclosed	3.3%	4.4%
Remote share	10.6%	6.8%	+3.8pp
Median age of posting	41d	51d
Open over 60 days	42.4%	30.4%
Visa sponsorship	13.9%	25.3%

Pay

Pay distribution

Graphic Designer

$50k$194k

UX Designer

$47k$181k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Graphic Designer

just posted41d median90d+

UX Designer

just posted51d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Graphic Designer — technologies

dbt

72.0%

Kotlin

65.8%

GCP

59.6%

AWS

53.4%

Python

47.2%

SQL

41.0%

Airflow

34.8%

UX Designer — technologies

Python

72.0%

Terraform

65.8%

JavaScript

59.6%

SQL

53.4%

TypeScript

47.2%

React

41.0%

Azure

34.8%

Graphic Designer — employers

Brightline Retail

9.4%

Fairmount Legal

8.7%

Kestrel Health

8.0%

Northwind Systems

7.2%

Lakeshore Hospitality

6.5%

Beacon Robotics

5.8%

Cobalt Financial

5.1%

UX Designer — employers

Halcyon Energy

9.4%

Rivergate Media

8.7%

Ironbark Manufacturing

8.0%

Quarry Analytics

7.2%

Cobalt Financial

6.5%

Kestrel Health

5.8%

Lakeshore Hospitality

5.1%

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Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.