Designers
Income Percentile Results
Total Income of $55,000 ranks between the 42.7th and 54.2th percentiles for all education levels. These results were estimated off of 780,658 Designers.
50th Percentile (Median) Income for any Education Level: $60,83575th Percentile: $92,228
95th Percentile: $175,359
99th Percentile: $367,000
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Income Percentile Stats
- To be in the top 1% for this age range, your household would need an income of $367,000 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.
- To be in the top 5% for this age range, your household would need an income of $175,359 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.
Income of Designers by Highest Education Level
Total Income of $55,000 ranks for education levels:- Compared to Doctoral degree holders this ranks between the 27.8th and 36.6th percentiles.
- Compared to Professional degree beyond a Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 28th and 41.2th percentiles.
- Compared to Master's degree holders this ranks between the 27.5th and 37.3th percentiles.
- Compared to Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 38.5th and 51.1th percentiles.
- Compared to HS Diploma / GED degree holders this ranks between the 61.6th and 71.1th percentiles.
Income Percentile Distribution by Education Level
Highest Level of Education for Designers:- Other (N/A or Less than HS): 2.1%
- HS Diploma / GED: 8.8%
- Associates Degree and Some College: 26.9%
- Bachelors Degree: 50.5%
- Masters Degree: 10.1%
- Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors: 0.9%
- Doctoral Degree (PHd) : 0.6%
Most Common Bachelors Degree Majors
- For Fine Arts undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 39.8th and 53.4th percentiles.
- For Business undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 40.2th and 50.5th percentiles.
- For Communications undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 36.7th and 49.3th percentiles.
- For Engineering undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 25.9th and 36.1th percentiles.
- For Architecture undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 34.3th and 47.3th percentiles.
- For Social Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 40th and 51.9th percentiles.
- For Computer and Information Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 35.5th and 46.9th percentiles.
- For Education Administration and Teaching undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 44.9th and 57th percentiles.
- For English Language, Literature, and Composition undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 36.4th and 46.9th percentiles.
- For Psychology undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 38.8th and 49.1th percentiles.
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Methodology and Assumptions
This data was sourced from the person-level data recorded by the American Communities Survey. The version of the survey used was the most recent 5 year revision for data recorded from 2017-2022. These results represent 780,658 Designers. The occupation code that was used to generate these results e was 2630 to read more about the occupation codes that the ACS and Census use. These results were generated in R using raw data from the ACS and precalculated in a batch. This data includes all individual income for the survey respondent, so some of the people may have a wage job as well as other income sources. I did not limit to wage income, because many occupations have high portions of entrepreneurs (CEOs, doctors, tradespeople).
Exclusions and Filters Applied:- Filtered for people who reported working at least 30 hours a week.
- High School Graduates and GED graduates were original 2 separate categories that I combined.
- Anything below High School Graduates is combined into a separate category. I did not include these on the page for space reason but I can. The data has data for associate degree holders and some college and these values are mostly in between the high school and bachelors samples. There doesn't seem to be a significant difference between some college and an associates degree.
- All ages are included and not separated. I did some initial testing and there is a difference if the data is split out by age, but I wasn't able to consolidate the data into a way that would make it fast to interact with and avoid being too complicated.
- There may be some confusion around a masters degree vs a professional degree beyond a masters. This was a distinction made in the original raw data that I decided to keep. Because the data is collected by polling people individually, some of the respondents may have mixed up the difference depending on how they phrased their response.
- Masters Degree : MBA, Masters in Something
- Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors Degree: Law Degree, Medical School, generally these degrees are credentials for specific careers.
- Doctoral Degree: PHd