What Is the Pay Rate of a Web Designer?
Web designers use software applications and tools to design and create Web sites. The designers interact with a Web site's users in order to determine the design of the site and the content that will be presented in light of performance and capacity requirements. The Web site designer may also be responsible for the technical aspects of the site, including the conversion of written, graphic, audio and video components to Web formats and the possible integration of the site with databases or other information systems.
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Mean Salary
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The 2010 mean annual wage for a Web designer was $79,370, or $38.16 per hour, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In turn, the median annual earnings for those designers whose salaries fell in the lowest 10 percent of the salary range for this profession was $43,190, or $20.76 per hour. Web designers whose salaries fell in the top 10 percent of the wage range earned a median annual salary of $119,940, or $57.67 per hour.
Wages by Industry
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A Web designer's salary is influenced by the industry in which he works. The BLS states that Web designer positions are concentrated in the satellite telecommunications, information services, computer systems design and services, data processing and hosting and wired telecommunications carriers industries, which paid designers the mean wages of $88,990, $81,690, $82,530, $$83,550 and $82,090 per year, respectively.
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Wages by Location
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Virginia, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Washington and Minnesota are the areas of the country with the highest concentration of Web designers, according to the BLS. Web designers working in Virginia earned an annual mean wage of $86,760, which was the highest mean salary paid in any of the five states with the highest concentration of Web designers. In contrast, designers working in Washington earned $81,120, which was the lowest mean wage reported in any of these five states. States that paid Web designers the highest annual salaries, in order of wages earned, were New Jersey ($89,830), Maryland ($89,450), California ($88,860), Virginia ($86,760) and Massachusetts ($86,480).
Outlook
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According to the BLS, the 30 percent growth rate in demand for workers in the computer network, systems and database administrators occupational category is expected to continue until the year 2018. This growth rate for Web designers in particular is much faster than the average growth rate for all occupations due to the adoption by organizations of sophisticated Web technologies, the expanding number of services provided over the Internet and the increasing need to transmit data over the Internet.
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