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Salaries / Graphic Designers / San Francisco

Graphic Designers salaries in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA

Auto-summary H-1B filings: DOL disclosure data

Employers filed 151 certified H-1B applications for graphic designers in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA area (July 2025 to June 2026), from 96 employers.

The middle half of offers were $108,500 to $190,000 a year, with a median of $150,000: 36% above the national median for this job ($110,000).

The most common wage level was Level IV (41% of filings).

25th percentile$108,500
Median offer$150,000
75th percentile$190,000
National median$110,000

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Wage levels

DOL sets four wage levels by experience. The share of filings at each level, and the minimum the employer must pay for that level here.

LevelShare of filingsPrevailing wage (minimum)
Level I (entry)10%—
Level II (qualified)31%—
Level III (experienced)18%—
Level IV (fully competent)41%—

We don't carry prevailing wages for this occupation yet; the DOL wage search has them.

Who sponsors graphic designers here

EmployerH-1B filingsMedian offerGreen card filings (PERM, this job, US)
Amazon.com Services LLC12$169,500—
LinkedIn Corporation8$127,0005
Meta Platforms, Inc8$238,000—
Google LLC5$206,000—
Ideo Llc4$123,0003
OpenAI OpCo, LLC4$215,000—
Card79 LLC3$150,000—
DreamCraft Entertainment, Inc.3$70,000—
Core Software Technologies Inc3$81,000—
Envoy Inc.2$182,000—
Strava, Inc.2$191,5001
Noise 13 Design Incorporated2——
The Joy Culture Foundation2——
Asana, Inc.2$278,000—
Boston Consulting Group, Inc.2$182,000—

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Common titles filed under this occupation: Graphic Designer, Ux Designer Ii, Product Designer, Ux Designer Iii, Senior Product Designer, Ux Designer, Designer, Senior Designer.

About this data

Offers are the wages employers put on certified Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) for H-1B workers: Certified H-1B LCAs decided July 2025 to June 2026. An LCA is filed before a petition, so not every filing became a job, and pay excludes bonus and stock. Annual pay; hourly offers are multiplied by 2,080. Pages appear only where there were at least 100 filings. Source: DOL disclosure data and OFLC wage data. Not legal or financial advice.