Product Designer
Decides how a product behaves before it is built, then defends it through implementation. Judgment is the deliverable.
- Pay band (est.)
- $98k–$192k
- Time to competence
- 5 years
- Licence
- None
- Setting
- desk
- Leverage
- high
- Place constraint
- low
- Physical demand
- 8/100
- Hours burden
- 52/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play61th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge68th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage86th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand67th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay78th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body96th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy94th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit77th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility88th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill63th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load50th
Closeness to the families you marked as meaningful. Your mapping, not ours.
- Downside tolerance92th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Work is easily overruled; first cut in downturns.
Examine this against your weights
The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.
- Place constraint is low. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
- Hours burden is 52/100 and people intensity 65/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS OEWS May 2024, Web and Digital Interface Designers (15-1255): median $98,090, 90th percentile $192,180. Outlook from BLS 2025-35 projections, +6.0%. Other scores editorial. All figures are estimates for comparison.