Average Salary

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One of the most popular questions we get from our readers here is how much do Industrial Designers make per year and their hourly wage.

Starting Salary

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Entry-level Industrial Designers with little to no experience can expect to make anywhere between $38630 to $51670 per year or $19 to $25 per hour.

Just like any other job, the salary of a Commercial and Industrial Designer will increase as they become more experienced.

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Salary Rank

We wanted to make it easy for our readers to compare the salary of a Commercial and Industrial Designer to all the other careers out there. So we created Salary Rank. We compare the salary of all careers then we give them a rank of A, B, C or D depending on where their average salary sits in comparison to other careers.

After comparing how much do Industrial Designers make with other careers, they have a salary rank of B.

Salary range

Level	Hourly	Yearly
Highest (Top 10%)	$52	$108040
Senior (Top 25%)	$42	$87620
Middle (Mid 50%)	$32	$66590
Junior (Bottom 25%)	$25	$51670
No experience (Bottom 10%)	$19	$38630

Highest paying states

State	Hourly	Annual
NJ	$ 41	$ 85,000
OR	$ 41	$ 84,290
WA	$ 40	$ 82,740
AR	$ 39	$ 82,070
MA	$ 39	$ 81,660
SC	$ 39	$ 81,570
AZ	$ 37	$ 77,920
CA	$ 37	$ 77,580
LA	$ 37	$ 76,520
MI	$ 36	$ 75,430

Another simple way to increase your salary as a Commercial and Industrial Designer is to move to a higher paying state. However moving to a higher paying state like NJ doesn’t guarantee that you will make more because the expenses at NJ might be much higher than where you are currently living at right now.

According to BLS, the highest paid Industrial Designers are in the states of NJ, OR, WA, AR and MA.

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http://www.bls.gov/OOH/arts-and-design/industrial-designers.htm

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