Which pays more, Product Designer or UI 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

Product Designer vs UI Designer

Product Designer pays more: a median of $114,500 against $109,500. There is 1.7× more demand for Product Designer. Product Designer is the more remote-friendly of the two, by 6.5%.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Product Designer	UI Designer	Gap
Open postings	28,541	17,291	+11,250
Posted this week	2,319	628
Median salary	$114,500	$109,500	+$5k
25th percentile	$90.5k	$86.5k
75th percentile	$142k	$136k
Salary disclosed	6.4%	5.5%
Remote share	13.1%	6.6%	+6.5pp
Median age of posting	94d	95d
Open over 60 days	37.3%	44.6%
Visa sponsorship	6.3%	24.8%

Pay

Pay distribution

Product Designer

$52k$198k

UI Designer

$49k$189k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Product Designer

just posted94d median90d+

UI Designer

just posted95d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Product Designer — technologies

Docker

72.0%

Terraform

65.8%

Python

59.6%

Tableau

53.4%

dbt

47.2%

AWS

41.0%

JavaScript

34.8%

UI Designer — technologies

TypeScript

72.0%

Java

65.8%

Spark

59.6%

Tableau

53.4%

Azure

47.2%

41.0%

Kotlin

34.8%

Product Designer — employers

Quarry Analytics

9.4%

Umbra Security

8.7%

Solstice Biotech

8.0%

Fairmount Legal

7.2%

Aperture Labs

6.5%

Beacon Robotics

5.8%

Kestrel Health

5.1%

UI Designer — employers

Kestrel Health

9.4%

Solstice Biotech

8.7%

Tidewater Insurance

8.0%

Cobalt Financial

7.2%

Aperture Labs

6.5%

Pinewood Education

5.8%

Lakeshore Hospitality

5.1%

More comparisons

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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%.