Annual Salary, Salary Range, and Highest Paying States and Industries
Fashion Designers
Fashion Designers design clothing and accessories. Create original designs or adapt fashion trends.
Table of contents
- Average salary
- Starting salary
- Salary rank
- Salary range
- Highest paying states
- Highest paying industries
Average salary
Starting salary
Entry-level Fashion Designers with little to no experience can expect to make anywhere between $38,570 to $54,470 per year or $19 to $26 per hour. Similar to any other job, their salary will increase as they gain experience.
Salary rank
We wanted to make it easy for our readers to compare the salary of Fashion Designers to all the other careers out there. So we created Salary Rank. We compared the salary of all careers then we gave them a rank of A, B, C, or D depending on where their average salary sit in comparison to other careers.
Salary range
Level | Hourly | Annual |
---|---|---|
Highest (Top 10%) | $70 | $146,300 |
Senior (Top 25%) | $49 | $101,700 |
Middle (Mid 50%) | $36 | $75,810 |
Junior (Bottom 25%) | $26 | $54,470 |
No experience (Bottom 10%) | $19 | $38,570 |
Highest paying states
State | Hourly | Annual |
---|---|---|
CA | $47 | $97,270 |
NY | $44 | $91,690 |
VT | $44 | $90,640 |
NH | $41 | $84,990 |
MA | $41 | $84,480 |
OR | $40 | $83,360 |
PR | $39 | $81,010 |
TN | $38 | $78,820 |
WA | $38 | $78,710 |
NC | $38 | $78,230 |
Another simple way to increase your salary as a Fashion Designer is to move to a higher paying state. However moving to a higher paying state like CA doesn’t guarantee that you will make more because the expenses at CA might be much higher than where you are currently living at right now.
According to BLS, the highest paid Fashion Designers are in the states of CA, NY, VT, NH and MA.
Highest paying industries
Salary by industry | Annual | Hourly |
---|---|---|
Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing | $110780 | $53.26 |
Specialized Design Services | $109320 | $52.56 |
Cut and Sew Apparel Manufacturing | $91550 | $44.01 |
Motion Picture and Video Industries | $90790 | $43.65 |
Management of Companies and Enterprises | $89120 | $42.84 |
Employment Services | $88830 | $42.71 |
Apparel, Piece Goods, and Notions Merchant Wholesalers | $85260 | $40.99 |
Clothing Stores | $82010 | $39.43 |
Apparel Knitting Mills | $79840 | $38.39 |
General Merchandise Stores | $76640 | $36.85 |
Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses | $76110 | $36.59 |
Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods | $73540 | $35.36 |
Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods | $68970 | $33.16 |
Wholesale Electronic Markets and Agents and Brokers | $64520 | $31.02 |
Apparel Accessories and Other Apparel Manufacturing | $60160 | $28.92 |
Other Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing | $59260 | $28.49 |
Performing Arts Companies | $57620 | $27.70 |
Rental and Leasing Services | $55170 | $26.53 |
Elementary and Secondary Schools | $47980 | $23.07 |
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools | $41270 | $19.84 |
Other Schools and Instruction | $40210 | $19.33 |