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How Much Are You Worth? UI/UX Designer Salary Around the World

IT industry has become a high-salaried industry, as the popularization of the Internet today,also become a development trend around the world. The demand for talent soared due to the rapid development of society. Therefore, the vocational skill requirements derived from the Internet environment for IT staff are constantly keeping up. If you want to gain a firm foothold in the IT industry, no matter the basic office skills, or professional application development language, and professional design tools, that are essential career competences for IT staff, according to the requirements of different industries.

So, you may raise questions under the precondition of the sustainable growth of Internet popularity. What’s the most wanted skill? What’s the most potential industry? And what’s the most promising job? Data from an IT survey shows that the most popular 10 IT skills/professions are as follows:
1. UI/UX designer
2. Full-stack Web and product developers
3. Network engineers
4. Security/network security experts
5. Mobile engineers
6. Business analysts
7. IT project manager
8. Cloud architect/integration
9. Data scientist
10. CMS

This survey shows that UI/UX designers listed at the top among these IT skills/professions. An article, 29 Best Jobs for Work-Life Balance, published on Forbes shows that the work-life balance of UI designer and UX designer are 4.0 and 4.1, which listed at 5th and 2nd places among the 29 best jobs respectively. The universal annual salary levels of them are maintained around $ 84,500 and $ 95,000. Obviously, UI/UX designer is the most popular and perfect job at the current environment. You can not only gain high income but also can keep a good balance between life and work.

How much the UI/UX designers earn in the entire year? Here is a figure below for your reference to learn how much the UI/UX designers earn in every part of the world. Salary varies according to economic development.

UI/UX Designer Average Annual Salaries Around the World:


Popular Employer Salaries for UX Designer:
Source: payscale.com

Related Job Salaries:
Source: payscale.com

Global Average UX Salaries by Years of Experience:
Here's how the average salary changes as more experience is gained.
Source: uxdesignersalaries.com

In the final analysis, we have a look at the UI/UX salary level in China. In recent years, the UI/UX design industry gets flourish, many people are wondering how the situation and how much salary could gain in China. A survey from a Chinese UI/UX design website shows that the average monthly UI salary is more than 6K RBM, and the average monthly UI salary over 10K RMB also accounted for a large proportion. Therefore, UI/UX salary increases with the accumulation of work experience. Experience can be wealth, too.

China Average UI Salaries by Years of Experience:

It appears that the average salary of a fledgling designer is around 6.5k RMB. Salary level will get improve as experience improving. Of course, the salary of UI/UX designers is connected to the skills and tools they mastered. The more technique and tool mastered the more potential and better on salary and career development. Salary of UI/UX designer listed in this article is only for reference, and the ultimate is depending on your situation. Please remember that there is no easy way to get succeed. The best to keep you a high salary is self-motivated and always looking into the latest UI/UX design trend. If you are a newbie who just gets into this industry, here is a list of must-read books & resources recommended.

Some people are jealousy the high salary of UI/UX designers, while their cognition to UI/UX design, and product design are still remaining at the very superficial stage: designer is who use the prototyping/wireframing tools such as Axure, Mockplus, or Sketch, Photoshop to draw beautiful wireframe model to help engineers better development.

More disappointed is that many people still think design is a fake and only to show good appearance. "To make the product more eye-catching!", "To make the interface more artistic!" - These are often heard. This is how people think about design, superficially, no technique content. Let alone to have a clear understand the terms of UI, UX, IA, IxD.

As an enterprising UI/UX designer longing for high-income, how to do to master the basic skills to achieve the salary goal? You may get some inspiration from the recruitment requirement. Generally speaking, in addition to the specific requirements of jobs, for example, playing computer games well will be a plus when you applying for a game developing company, the highly understanding and insights of UI/UX design is always concerned. Caring for the latest UI/UX trends, keep learning to keep ahead. Good communication and collaboration skills are also required to be an excellent designer. Besides, skill improvement is inevitable, the popular prototyping tools Axure, Mockplus, Proto.io are always required to master well.



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