NY pays the most ($179k median) — 40% more than FL ($128k). Based on 516 disclosed-salary listings across 22 states with ≥3 disclosures.
Each hexagon is a US state. Color = median salary midpoint of disclosed designer listings (Viridis: dark = lower, bright = higher). Grey = fewer than 3 disclosures.
Hexgrid US-state map. Each hex represents one state at uniform size — defies geographic scale, ranks by data signal. Pay-transparency-disclosed listings only.
Active US designer listings with disclosed salary ranges, parsed from listing-level location strings. Salary is the midpoint of the disclosed range. States with fewer than 3 disclosures are shown grey to avoid noisy small-N estimates. Pay-transparency laws in NY, CA, CO, WA, IL, NJ, MA, and MN drive most of the disclosure volume — states without such laws will look sparse here regardless of their actual hiring activity.