Which pays more, Graphic Designer or UX Researcher?

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 Researcher

Pay is effectively the same — the medians sit within 2.8% apart. There is 1.6× more demand for Graphic Designer. Listings for Graphic Designer move faster — median age 41 days against 52.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Graphic Designer	UX Researcher	Gap
Open postings	22,450	13,684	+8,766
Posted this week	1,238	1,189
Median salary	$112,000	$109,000	+$3k
25th percentile	$88.5k	$86k
75th percentile	$139k	$135k
Salary disclosed	3.3%	5.0%
Remote share	10.6%	12.3%	-1.7pp
Median age of posting	41d	52d
Open over 60 days	42.4%	34.1%
Visa sponsorship	13.9%	24.4%

Pay

Pay distribution

Graphic Designer

$50k$194k

UX Researcher

$49k$189k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Graphic Designer

just posted41d median90d+

UX Researcher

just posted52d 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 Researcher — technologies

Python

72.0%

Figma

65.8%

JavaScript

59.6%

Azure

53.4%

Airflow

47.2%

PostgreSQL

41.0%

dbt

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 Researcher — employers

Rivergate Media

9.4%

Northwind Systems

8.7%

Meridian Software

8.0%

Brightline Retail

7.2%

Halcyon Energy

6.5%

Cobalt Financial

5.8%

Tidewater Insurance

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%.