Throughline

Creative and communications

Graphic Designer in San Francisco

101 postings read · sampled 2026-10-01 · source ats · 38 employers · largest 7% of it

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 101 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

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 2026-10-01 · 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.

$54,470
10th percentile
$92,050
median
$142,460
90th percentile

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

Figma · Robinhood · Brex · Discord · Gusto · Hinge Health · OpenAI · Zip · Roblox · Anthropic · Baseten · Checkr · Chime · Harvey · Oura · Perplexity · Vercel · Verkada · Databricks · Decagon · Faire · Mercor · Rocket Lab · SpaceX · Superpower · 360 IT Professionals · Asana · Collabera · Culture Amp · Notion · Oscar Health · Ramp · SBT Global · Scale AI · Sierra · System Canada Technologies · Upgrade · Zocdoc

The same role elsewhere

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