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Salary history · 2018–2026

$152,000Design manager

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2018$58K
Junior designer
2019$64K
Product designer
2020$72K
Product designer
2021$86K
Senior designer ✦
2022$93K
Senior designer
2023$112K
Lead designer ✦
2024$126K
Staff designer
2025$138K
Staff designer
2026$152K
Design manager ✦

2021Senior designer“Joined startup”

2023Lead designer“Counter-offer year”

2026Design manager“First people-management role”

Started at$58K
Total growth+162%
Annual growth+12.8%

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The inflation check

Did you beat inflation?

Each year's raise against that year's CPI. Green beat it; red was a real-terms pay cut.

2019Your raise+10.3%Inflation+1.8%+8.4% real
2020Your raise+12.5%Inflation+1.3%+11.1% real
2021Your raise+19.4%Inflation+4.7%+14.1% real
2022Your raise+8.1%Inflation+8.0%+0.1% real
2023Your raise+20.4%Inflation+4.1%+15.7% real
2024Your raise+12.5%Inflation+3.0%+9.3% real
2025Your raise+9.5%Inflation+2.6%+6.7% real
2026Your raise+10.1%Inflation—

Your raises beat inflation in 7 of 8 years. Net effect: +99.1% in real buying power since 2018.

Move vs stay

What changed your pay?

Average raise in years your title changed vs years it didn't change.

Years you made a move+15.7%average raise · 4 years
Years you stayed+10.1%average raise · 3 years

Brighter stars

Your star, next to a famous one

Compare your income to other famous incomes.

Satya Nadella · 2024$79.1M
What that number isMicrosoft total compensation (SEC proxy)
Their pay vs yours548×
They earn your year in3.8 hours
Your entire 9-year career ($1.0M)1.2% of their 2024

Roughly 95% of it is stock, not salary.

The crowd

You, in a crowd of 100

Each figure represents a US W-2 wage earner, ranked on wage income alone.

Your $152,000 out-earns 91 of these 100 people; 8 stand ahead of you. In 2018 you stood ahead of 71, so your career has walked past 20 people in this crowd.

Among 173.7M Americans with W-2 wage income · SSA net compensation, 2023 · both salaries restated in 2023 dollars to match the table