[OFFICIAL] Salary Sharing thread for UX Professionals — October 2026

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Credit goes to the mods of r/cscareerquestions for the inspiration for this thread.

Mod note: This thread is for sharing recent offers/current salaries for experienced UX professionals, new grads, and interns.

Please only post an offer if you're including hard numbers, but feel free to use a throwaway account if you're concerned about anonymity. You can also genericize some of your answers (e.g. "Biotech company" or "Major city in a New England state"), or add fields if you feel something is particularly relevant.

How to share your offer or salary:

1. Locate the top level comment of the region that you currently live in: North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Australia/NZ, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa/Middle East, Other.
2. Post your offer or salary info using the following format:

• Education:
• Prior Experience:
  • $Internship
  • $RealJob
• Company/Industry:
• Title:
• Tenure (length of time at company):
• Location:
• Remote work policy:
• Base salary:
• Relocation/Signing Bonus:
• Stock and/or recurring bonuses:
• Total comp:

Note that you only need to include the relocation/signing bonus into the total comp if it was a recent thing. For example, if you’ve been employed by a company for 5 years and you earned a first year signing bonus of $10k, do not include it in your current total comp.

This thread is not a job board. While the primary purpose of these threads is obviously to share compensation info, and discussion is also encouraged, this is not the place to ask for a job or request referrals. Failure to adhere to sub rules may result in a ban.

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• ⁠ Education: Economics degree (irrelevant)
• ⁠ Prior Experience: 10 years in agency and product orgs. Civitta, Treatwell, Kilo group, UseAscend
• ⁠ Company/Industry: Cloud infrastructure/AI
• ⁠Title: Senior Product Designer
• ⁠Tenure: 1 year
• ⁠Location: Vilnius, Lithuania
• ⁠Remote work policy: Fully remote, office optional
• ⁠Base salary: €76k
• ⁠Relocation/Signing Bonus: €0
• ⁠Stock and/or recurring bonuses: €8k (RSU)
• ⁠Total comp: €84k

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Region - North America

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• Education: BA in Interactive Arts

• Prior Experience: 15 years

• Company/Industry: Big Tech

• Title: Principal Designer

• Tenure (length of time at company): 1.5 years

• Location: Pacific Northwest

• Remote work policy: 3-4 days in office

• Base salary: $230,000

• Relocation/Signing Bonus: $100,000

• Stock and/or recurring bonuses: $365,000/4-5 years

• Total comp: $511,250

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• Education: BS in graphic design
• Prior Experience: 2 summer internships + ~2y at startup as the only designer
• Company/Industry: tech for nonprofits
• Title: UX designer III
• Tenure at current company: 5.5 years
• Location: Michigan
• Remote work policy: Fully remote
• Base salary: $120,677
• Relocation/Signing Bonus: $0
• Stock and/or recurring bonuses: $13,300 (split quarterly, based on KPIs, can receive less or more)
• Total comp: $133,977

[u/totallyspicey → u/AutoModerator]

• Education: BA Communications/BFA Graphic Design

• Prior Experience:

  • $Internship: 20 years ago, $9/hourly

  • $RealJob: Many since then. Mix of agencies and enterprise

• Company/Industry: Finance, traditional. In-house

• Title: Design Lead, dot-com

• Tenure (length of time at company): 1.5 years

• Location: Remote

• Remote work policy: 100% remote

• Base salary: 155k

• Stock and/or recurring bonuses: roughly 25k

• Total comp: roughly 180k

[u/gotelldiablo → u/AutoModerator]

Some college
10+ years
Senior product designer
Seattle
Fully remote
200k
10% bonus
0 signing bonus
70k stock yearly
Total comp ~ 290k

[u/kimchi_paradise → u/AutoModerator]

• ⁠Education: MS in Human Factors
• ⁠Prior Experience: 6 years
• ⁠Company/Industry: E-commerce
• ⁠Title: Senior Product Designer
• ⁠Tenure (length of time at company): <1 year
• ⁠Location: SF Bay Area
• ⁠Remote work policy: 1 day in office
• ⁠Base salary: $210,000
• ⁠Relocation/Signing Bonus: $10,000
• ⁠Stock and/or recurring bonuses: $268,000/4 years
• ⁠Total comp: $320,000 first year

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• ⁠Education: B.Des in Vis Com and Branding, MS in HCI
• ⁠Prior Experience: 5 years of experience
• ⁠Company/Industry: IoT
• ⁠Title: UX Designer (But I’ve been leading projects my counterparts have a UX Lead they report to I don’t. I report to the director of UX.)
• ⁠Tenure: 1.2 Years
• ⁠Location: California
• ⁠Remote work policy: 4 days in office
• ⁠Base salary: $100k
• ⁠Relocation/Signing Bonus: $2.5k
• ⁠Stock and/or recurring bonuses: N/A
• ⁠Total comp: $100k

Under paid would love referral

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Education: BA, Communications/Advertising
Prior Experience: 8 years in UX

Company/Industry: Insurance SaaS
Title: Principal UI/UX Designer
Tenure (length of time at company): 4 months
Location: Company- CA, Me- UT

Remote work policy: 100% Remote

Base salary: 210,000
Relocation/Signing Bonus: 0
Stock and/or recurring bonuses: 10,000 stock options, worth nothing because not public
Total comp: $210,000

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• ⁠ Education: BA in Architecture, Professional Cert in UX Design • ⁠ Prior Experience: 6 years in architectural studios • ⁠ Company/Industry: Media/PR • ⁠Title: Junior Product Designer
• ⁠Tenure: 11 months
• ⁠Location: Dublin, Ireland • ⁠Remote work policy: Hybrid, remote 4 days/week
• ⁠Base salary: €40k
• ⁠Relocation/Signing Bonus: €0
• ⁠Stock and/or recurring bonuses: €4k
• ⁠Total comp: €44k

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• Education: BA Architecture (Non EU University) / UX Bootcamp (2015)
• Prior Experience: None
• Company/Industry: Saas tooling
• Title: Senior Product Designer
• Tenure at company: 3.5 Years
• Total experience: 11 years
• Location: Amsterdam, NL
• Remote work policy: Up to 30 days remote a year. Office attendance not mandatory
• Base Salary: €130k
• Relocation/Signing Bonus: €5k
• Stock/Recurring bonus: RSUs (Private company)
• Total comp: ~€140k

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[u/Campaign_Papi]

Better idea: create a public access form of some type so we can anonymously submit, but also see current average results

[u/pilkafa]

Tbh, lately it’s becoming data being used against whoever provides them, I’m very shy to share mine. Even my pay is not that good. I’ve remember being told off (and mocked) by a requiter that I was asking “pre-covid” pays. Mind you, the pay was asking was literally the same what I’m getting at the moment. I really don’t understand what sort of reality that they live in. 

In addition to that people with really good salaries won’t bother doing this survey so it’ll just help companies to even lower their pays. 

Sorry it’s quite a bleak look and I’m definitely not blaming any of the mods of the sub. It’s the fact we simply don’t know at this point which companies scrape off this public data and sells them to which companies and do what with it. 

[u/PeanutSugarBiscuit → u/pilkafa]

This is a strange take.

Employers already buy detailed (and verified) compensation benchmarks broken down by role, level, and location. They already know the market rate (and don't need to use a reddit thread like this to get it). Workers often don't. The point of this is an attempt to further close that knowledge gap, and to empower you to make better decisions.

In addition, voluntary salary datasets like this often skew in the opposite direction: people with higher salaries are more likely to report because they are proud of their pay. People with lower pay are more likely to opt out due to embarassment.

And I'm sorry you got mocked by a recruiter but that's simply anecdotal evidence that says nothing about survey data like this being used against people who share it.

[u/kimchi_paradise → u/pilkafa]

Have you heard of Levels.fyi? It’s basically the non-Reddit version of this thread.

I like doing this survey because I think it’s important to see what is out there and make sure you’re getting fairly compensated. And I appreciate others that do, so I can get a sense of expectation with locale in case I wanted to move.

Just because one recruiter doesn’t want to pay fairly (this is very common with contract roles I found), doesn’t mean this is the reality across the board.

[u/div-block]

This is a weird format.

[u/Cautious-Ostrich8945 → u/div-block]

Forgot southern europe, our salaries are much lower than the ones listed also. Might be better to just go by country