Brand design salary: $170K median
The median advertised Brand design salary is $170K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $130K to $208K: counted from 224 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $82 an hour or $14,167 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $243K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll Brand design jobs
$170Kmedian advertised salary
$130K – $208Kmiddle half of roles
$172Kaverage advertised salary
224roles counted
Brand design salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $198K, 32% more than senior roles ($150K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $150K | $126K–$167K | 57 |
| Lead and above | $198K | $168K–$230K | 87 |
| No level in the title | $156K | $105K–$195K | 79 |
Brand design salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $192K | 72 |
| 🇺🇸California | $180K | 101 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $174K | 67 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $171K | 216 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Perplexity | $230K | 5 |
| Twitch | $230K | 4 |
| Ramp | $226K | 6 |
| Harvey | $215K | 3 |
| Anduril Industries | $186K | 7 |
| Roblox | $181K | 4 |
| Brex | $174K | 11 |
| Design Bridge and Partners | $162K | 3 |
| True Anomaly | $155K | 3 |
| Glossier | $122K | 3 |
| Samsara | $102K | 3 |
| AMOREPACIFIC US, INC | $88K | 4 |
Highest-paying open Brand design roles
All Brand design jobs- Head of BrandRamp · 🇺🇸New York, NY (HQ)$309K - $424KHybridLead and aboveRailsBrand designTypography
- Head of Industrial DesignWaymo · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA, US$323K - $399KLead and aboveBrand designRegulatory complianceCAD
- Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Product TeamsSuno · 🇺🇸NYC$228K - $363KLead and abovePythonTypeScriptReact
- Head of Partner MarketingHarvey · 🇺🇸San Francisco$251K - $344KHybridLead and aboveBrand design
- Director, Production (Licensed IP and Partner Titles - Fortnite Ecosystem)Epic Games · BLANK,BLANK,Multiple Locations$220K - $322KLead and aboveUnreal EngineBrand designWorkforce planning
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Creative EffectivenessReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$230K - $322KRemoteLead and aboveMachine LearningLLMAI
- Brand Strategy Lead, Brand Architecture & NamingAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$255K - $320KLead and aboveBrand designCopywriting
- Principal CMF Designer, Warfighter SystemsAnduril Industries · 🇺🇸Bellevue, Washington, United States$241K - $319KLead and aboveComputer VisionBrand designSensor fusion
- Brand Design Manager, GrowthBrex · 🇺🇸New York, New York, United States$248K - $311KFigmaBrand designTypography
- Brand Design Manager, GrowthBrex · 🇺🇸Seattle, Washington, United States$248K - $311KFigmaBrand designTypography
- Software Engineer, Frontend, GrowthRamp · 🇺🇸New York, NY (HQ)$200K - $310KHybridReactNext.jsSEO
- Head of Corporate MarketingJellyfish · 🇺🇸Remote - US$250K - $305KRemoteLead and aboveBrand designWMS
- Creative Director [Contract or Full-time]Glossier · 🇺🇸New York, NY$235K - $305KLead and aboveBrand designPhotographyVisual merchandising
- Design Engineer, Growth & MarketingPerplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$180K - $300KTypeScriptReactFigma
- Head of Corporate MarketingSambaNova · 🇺🇸San Jose, California, United States$225K - $300KLead and aboveSEOAWSBrand design
- Brand Design LeadMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $300KLead and aboveVisual designBrand designTypography
- Senior Software Engineer - DesignLoancrate · 🇺🇸United States$170K - $300KRemoteSeniorTypeScriptReactFigma
- Group Creative Director - Brand NarrativeMercury · 🇺🇸🇨🇦San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote…$211K - $293KRemoteLead and aboveBrand designCopywriting
- Principal Brand DesignerSnorkel AI · 🇺🇸New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)$225K - $280KHybridLead and aboveFigmaGenerative AILLM evaluation
- Head of Brand & StorytellingOtter.ai · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$250K - $280KLead and aboveBrand designSocial media marketing
Questions about Brand design pay
- What is the average Brand design salary?
- $172K a year on average and $170K at the median, across 224 open Brand design postings at companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.
- What is the typical range?
- The middle half of the postings offer $130K to $208K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Brand design pay?
- Perplexity ($230K), Twitch ($230K), Ramp ($226K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a brand design a high-paying job?
- The median Brand design posting advertises $170K a year, less than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 2% below the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a brand design?
- A tenth of the postings offer $243K a year or more; the highest open Brand design role advertises up to $424K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Brand design salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $170K a year is about $82 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $14,167 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $62 to $100 an hour.
- Where do these figures come from?
- From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.
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The median advertised salary for Brand design roles at companies is $170K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $130K to $208K. Counted from 224 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/brand-design/
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