Creative and communications

Graphic Designer in the United States

211 postings read · sampled 2026-09-01 · source ats

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 211 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

Bachelor's DegreeAccredited institution
7%
14 of 211 postingsAccredited institution →

Lower signal for this role

Credentials that barely appeared in this sample. That is not a claim they are worthless — plenty are valuable for a different job, a different city, or a promotion later. It is a claim that employers here mostly did not ask.

Associate DegreeAccredited institution
0%
1 of 211 postingsAccredited institution →
Master's DegreeAccredited institution
0%
1 of 211 postingsAccredited institution →

What the official taxonomy says

O*NET surveys people already doing this job. That describes who got hired over a long window, not what employers are asking for now — where it disagrees with the counts above, the counts are the more current answer.

Education reported by people doing this job

65%reported bachelor’s degree

Bachelor’s degree65%
High school diploma or equivalent15%
Master’s degree10%

Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

O*NET 27-1024.00 · pulled 2026-09-01 · percentages are of surveyed workers, each rounded separately, so they need not total 100

What it pays

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. A different survey from the postings above, so the two do not share a sample.

$39,520

10th percentile

$62,960

median

$104,910

90th percentile

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

Stripe · Headway · Figma · Datadog · Hinge Health · Brex · Gusto · OpenAI · Robinhood · Coinbase · Fanatics Commerce · Mercury · Pinterest · Vercel · Verkada · Applied Intuition · Baseten · Chime · Discord · Harvey · Linear · Reddit · SpaceX · Suno · Via · Zip · Zocdoc · Abridge · Affirm · Anduril Industries · Asana · City of New York · Databricks · Decagon · Duolingo · Ethos Life · FanDuel · Klaviyo · Lyft · Monzo · Oscar Health · Oura · Ramp · Range · Roblox · Rocket Lab · Saronic · Sierra · Supabase · Superpower · Wiz · 360 IT Professionals · Achieve · Airtable · Bosch · Browserbase · Budderfly · Calm · Charlie Health · Checkr · Collabera · Cresco Labs · Culture Amp · Deegit Inc · Divergent Technologies · Dropbox · EarnIn · ElevenLabs · Everlaw · Faire · Farther · Fivetran · GitLab · HelloFresh · Instacart · Insurify · Kin Insurance · Mark43 · Mercor · Notion · Path Robotics · Peloton · Resend · Samsara · Scale AI · Skild AI · SoFi · System Canada Technologies · The Florida Panthers · Toast · vTech Solution · Wynn Resorts