Web and Digital Interface Designers · SOC 15-1255

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Web and Digital Interface Designerss

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025U.S. metropolitan areas

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for web and digital interface designers. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (16 such areas are excluded here). Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 25 of 154 metro areas

Web and Digital Interface Designers: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$201,260	4,400	3.9
2	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$163,810	6,630	2.8
3	Boulder, CO	$139,900	360	1.9
4	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$133,760	10,330	5.0
5	Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	$133,340	510	1.5
6	Ithaca, NY	$125,810	40	0.8
7	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$123,850	1,270	0.8
8	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$122,270	2,330	0.9
9	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$120,640	880	0.7
10	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	$119,950	1,080	0.8
11	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$119,190	14,990	1.6
12	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$118,190	1,890	0.7
13	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$114,220	60	0.6
14	Manchester-Nashua, NH	$113,700	140	0.7
15	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$112,840	480	0.4
16	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$111,420	50	0.5
17	Salt Lake City-Murray, UT	$107,320	580	0.7
18	Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT	$107,210	330	1.1
19	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$106,550	9,220	1.5
20	Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ	$104,940	640	0.3
21	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$104,840	1,420	0.5
22	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	$104,150	2,380	0.6
23	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$103,430	190	0.9
24	Raleigh-Cary, NC	$102,860	770	1.0
25	San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	$100,960	330	0.3

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Web and Digital Interface Designers overview.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.