 So how much does UX designer actually get paid and what's the top range? What do the top UX designers in the world get paid today? Let's have a look. Hey, just a quick thing so I don't forget. If you're interested in topics like this like salary and you know how much money you can make as UX designer and upping your game as UX designer in general, make sure you join our newsletter. It's an exclusive once per week newsletter written by myself and my team. It's free. It's just like going super deep on UX design and yeah, there's like 35,000 people on that newsletter. It's really great. You'll really enjoy it. If you don't like it, you can unsubscribe, but check it out down below. I think you'll enjoy it. Back to the video. Alright, so I have a pretty good idea what the top UX designers in the world get paid because I'm definitely friends with quite a few of the people working at these companies which have very, very, very high salaries and I know exactly what they get paid. But I realized looking at the comments on our YouTube channel that a lot of people don't really know what this range is. And the first thing I'll say is look, obviously every country is totally different. So if you see me showing you the Bay Area, London, Berlin, whatever, don't send me a message saying, well, it's not like this in Tokyo and well, it's not like this in Delhi. Yeah, sure, it's not. But you know, you can kind of work everywhere because now everyone's working remotely. So I'm showing you what the salaries are at the top range because I think that's what's most exciting, especially because, you know, anyone from any country can get good enough, especially if you've seen our channel long enough, you'll see a lot of the ways to get really good at UX design. Anybody from any country can get good enough to get these salaries, okay? So don't get angry at me if I'm showing mostly US and Western Europe. Okay. So first of all, I'm looking a lot at LinkedIn salary sort of thingy. So this is linkedin.com slash salary. And here you can find, you can just type in user experience designer, you can type in the area. And I think from what I've seen, these are not very accurate. So I'm looking here at senior UX designer, six to 14 years of experience and saying that 54,000 euro is the top range. Absolutely not. That's totally bullshit because we, I mean, I wish this was the top range. Maybe we're overpaying our UX designers. But this is absolutely not the top range for UX designer. This is actually very low. I would say this is closer to more the mid-level UX designer in Europe. So what I know, what I can tell you is that a senior UX designer in Europe and in Germany and also kind of in London, London has higher salaries and Ireland places like that is definitely closer to the 80 to 90 mark, especially if you've got like eight, nine years of experience, you're definitely going to be making more like 80,000 euro, 90,000 euro. That's the range. If you're a good UX designer, this whole video is about the top range. This whole video is about if you're very good, if you've got some experience, I'm not talking about junior mid-level. We talk about that enough in other videos. I thought you might be excited to hear what sort of the top absolute top level are making. So this is definitely not true. What you would be looking at in Europe if you were an excellent UX designer, in most good companies, you'd probably be more around at least 70,000 euro. So these prices are very low. They're not realistic. I can tell you that for sure. I run a UX agency in Germany. This is not true. And I also know the salaries of UX designers at my clients' offices in the big companies here in Germany. They're a lot higher than this. In fact, I even know people who are closer to the 200,000 euro mark salary as a senior UX designer. Now, let's look at a place where everyone knows there's very, very high salaries and that's San Francisco and Bay Area. So companies like, I'm just going to show you down here, San Francisco Bay Area, it says that like with all compensation combined, the top level user experience designers working at software companies are getting $130,000. This is not, maybe this is the, maybe this is the medium that like, this is kind of like the range is from 77 to $235,000. But I know for a fact that almost every like UX designer who has more than eight years experience is at least all of the ones that I know are all making more than $200,000 or at least very close to $200,000, $180,000, $192,000. I definitely know people in the 250 range as well with the total compensation. And what that means is that you have your base salary and you get things like annual bonuses, stock options, stuff like that, right? So that's something that's built into these tech companies. So yeah, I would say that like, you could say that the within range, yeah, you could work at a startup in Silicon Valley, which is newly funded and get 70. But if you're working at places like Google, Facebook, you're likely to be in the higher range of the salaries. You can see here the different kind of median based salaries. And this takes like the lowest reported and the highest reported salaries. Here you can see Google, their median is kind of 137,000 per year. You can see LinkedIn, 123, Apple, 122. But generally, what's clear is that the salary is always over 100, right? And it also depends on things like company size. So if the company has more than 10,000 employees, you're going to make more money. And I think this is also something interesting. It says your education level, if you've got a master's, that's interesting. Oh no, sorry, this is an MBA, not a master's. If you've got a master's, you get $5,000 more than a bachelor's. I don't know if I really believe that. I definitely think this is not accurate. It's saying like graphic design is number one, absolutely not in terms of salaries. The salary, the highest salaries in the design space are definitely UX rather than graphic design. So human computer reaction, reaction, human computer interaction are definitely the highest salaries. So yeah, I think the interesting thing to see here, and I can tell you as an insider or as a real insider, these companies generally pay their senior employees. If you're working in Silicon Valley, you can expect to be making in the $200 range, $200,000. Keeping in mind, the expenses over there are very high. So if you're living in Silicon Valley, your apartment's going to be very expensive. Your lifestyle is going to be very expensive. So it might seem crazy to be getting paid, you know, $200,000. By the way, if you're curious about who makes more than the UX designers, engineers make more than UX designers. They make a lot more than UX designers in most cases in most of these companies. But yeah, UX designers, if you're living in Silicon Valley, you can definitely get up into the $200 range. However, even though it says here that in Germany and also checked London, it's like saying that this range is up to $80. That's not true at all. You can work in Facebook in London. You can work in Google in Berlin here, and your salary is certainly not going to be 80 or lower when you're a senior UX designer with really good experience and you're also excellent. So if you're the top of your game, you can expect really top of the line salaries. It's one of the best paid jobs on the entire planet. And I think one of the things that is easy to forget is that, you know, you do also have to be very good. You have to be very passionate. You can't just take an online course and then you're a UX designer. You take an online course and then maybe you start at 20K, 25K. You still have to work your way up. Most people that started AJ & Smart, my company here probably start, you know, around the 30,000 euro mark if they're junior, even if they're only here for three years, they might end up getting to this 80K if they're really, really excellent, but usually takes quite a long time. So yeah, I just wanted to show you what the sort of top range of salaries are for UX designers. I definitely know people getting the $250,000 mark. I definitely know people getting $200, $180, $190. And I also know people, I mean, in Germany, you know, the highest, probably the highest UX salary at my company here, because we're a small company, I think it's like maybe 85 or something, 85,000 euro. So that's just to be super transparent. That's as high as it goes at AJ & Smart for the UX design roles. There are roles that are above that. But yeah, that's something just to give you a bit of a view. And you know, I think it's going to be interesting over the next few years now that COVID has happened. Now the companies like Facebook and Twitter are saying everyone can work remotely. I'm interested to see can someone living in Berlin work for Facebook, but get a salary that's a lot higher than what you're getting in Berlin. I know they said they're going to adjust for the places where you live. But I'm still curious, I think that they're going to be able to get amazing talent at an amazing price that's still higher than the local region. And I think that's going to be very, very interesting. It's going to be super interesting to see what happens. But let me know if you've heard any higher salaries than the 250. Let me know what sort of range you're in, what you want to be in, how much do you want to be making? And I really hope you enjoyed the video. If you did, hit the like button. A lot of people who watch these videos are not subscribed. It would be great if you could subscribe. Thanks so much for watching.