Creative and communications
Graphic Designer in the United States
215 postings read · sampled 2026-10-01 · source ats · 84 employers · largest 7% of it
What employers actually ask for
Credentials named in the 215 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.
- Bachelor's DegreeAccredited institution7%15 of 215 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.
- TS/SCIU.S. Government (DCSA)0%1 of 215 postingsU.S. Government (DCSA) →
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.
- 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 2026-10-01 · 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.
Who was hiring
Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.
Stripe · Figma · Headway · Anduril Industries · OpenAI · Robinhood · Zip · Brex · Discord · Gusto · Hinge Health · Datadog · Fanatics Commerce · Oura · Roblox · Anthropic · Applied Intuition · Baseten · Checkr · Chime · Databricks · Harvey · Linear · Mercury · Perplexity · Ramp · Scale AI · SpaceX · Suno · Vercel · Verkada · Zocdoc · Affirm · Asana · Decagon · Duolingo · ElevenLabs · Faire · FanDuel · HelloFresh · Instacart · Klaviyo · Mercor · Monzo · Notion · Oscar Health · Range · Reddit · Rocket Lab · Saronic · Sierra · Superpower · Toast · Via · Wiz · 360 IT Professionals · Blink Health · Boyd Gaming · Braze · Calm · City of New York · Coinbase · Collabera · CookUnity · Culture Amp · Deegit Inc · EarnIn · Ethos Life · Everlaw · Farther · Fivetran · George P. Johnson (GPJ) · incident.io · Lyft · Mark43 · Peloton · Pinterest · Samsara · SBT Global · Scout Motors · Skydio · System Canada Technologies · Upgrade · vTech Solution
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