Indian

Designers’
Salaries
2021

Curated with by
a few designers at
Zeta
Introduction
On June 15, 2021, we asked the product designers to share their
salaries along with few more details like benefits and ESOPs.

The idea was to build transparency, and to equip designers with the
knowledge they need to grow and achieve goals in their careers. We
want to prove that no matter who you are or what your background,
designers everywhere can understand and ultimately drive their
own growth.

We had published a preview of the insights a couple of weeks back

and were overwhelmed by the amazing responses from the
community. As promised, here’s the detailed analysis of the survey
deep diving into attributes like experience, location and age.
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Key Takeaways
Median salary growth

Bengaluru: ee sala cup namde

1.5X

Negligible gender pay gap

Decreasing gender ratio

Narrow wealth creation opportunities

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Methodology
Using a Google Form survey, we asked designers about
1 their salary, location, role, experience and company size. We
received 650+ complete and relevant responses.

The responses received were then analysed based on

2 multiple attributes including experience, location and age.

We filtered some US data out of this report and even added

3 the variable pay onto the base salary for the calculation.
Joining bonus amount was’nt added to base salary.

The insights obtained from the analysis were then

4 translated into a consumable infographic format (and
you’re glancing through it right now). In some instances,
the data is very less to derive meaningful insights.
Especially for 10-15 and 15+.
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Salary by

Experience
Illustration by @paperpillar
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Salary by EXPERIENCE

Medians

0-2 years 2-5 years 5-10 years

₹7.00L ₹10.02L ₹20.00L

10-15 years 15+ years

₹30.00L ₹53.50L

₹60L

₹40L

₹20L

₹0L
0-2 2-5 5-10 10-15 15+
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0-2 years

₹40L

₹30L

₹20L

₹10L

₹0

Percentile salaries

₹2.4L ₹3.7L ₹7.0L ₹11.7L ₹16.7L

10th 25th 50th 75th 90th

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0-2 years

₹35,00,000
₹20,00,000
₹18,60,000
₹17,20,000
90th
₹15,80,000
₹14,40,000
₹13,00,000
75th ₹11,60,000
₹10,20,000
₹8,80,000

Median ₹7,40,000
₹7.00L ₹6,00,000
₹4,60,000
25th
₹3,20,000
10th
₹1,80,000
₹40,000
0 10 20 30 40
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2-5 years

₹80L

₹60L

₹40L

₹20L

₹0

Percentile salaries

₹4.6L ₹6.6L ₹10.2L ₹17.5L ₹24.2L

10th 25th 50th 75th 90th

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2-5 years

₹61,81,000

₹27,00,000

₹25,05,500
90th

₹23,11,000

₹21,16,500

₹19,22,000

75th
₹17,27,500

₹15,33,000

₹13,38,500

₹11,44,000
Median

₹10.20L
₹9,49,500

₹7,55,000

25th

₹5,60,500

10th

₹3,66,000

₹80,000

0 10 20 30 40
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5-10 years

₹80L

₹60L

₹40L

₹20L

₹0

Percentile salaries

₹5.3L ₹12.0L ₹20.0L ₹29.5L ₹41.2L

10th 25th 50th 75th 90th

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5-10 years

₹75,00,000

₹50,00,000

₹45,80,000

90th
₹41,50,000

₹37,30,000

₹33,10,000

75th
₹28,90,000

₹24,60,000

Median
₹20,40,000

₹20.00L

₹16,20,000

25th ₹12,00,000

₹7,80,000

10th

₹3,60,000

₹93,000

0 10 20 30
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10-15 years

₹200L

₹150L

₹100L

₹50L

₹0

Percentile salaries

₹12.5L ₹18L ₹30.0L ₹52.2L ₹85L

10th 25th 50th 75th 90th

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10-15 years

₹1,80,00,000

₹1,16,25,000

90th ₹88,96,000

₹61,67,000

75th

Median ₹34,38,000
₹30.00L
25th
10th
₹7,10,000

₹3,00,000
0 10 20
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15+ years

₹300L

₹200L

₹100L

₹0

Percentile salaries

₹26.7L ₹43.5L ₹53.5L ₹81.2L ₹1.18Cr

10th 25th 50th 75th 90th

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15+ years

₹3,00,00,000

₹2,01,00,000

₹1,42,00,000

90th

₹82,00,000
75th

Median

₹53.50L
25th

10th

₹22,40,000

₹18,00,000

0 5 10
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Salary by

GENDER
Illustration by @paperpillar
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Salary by Gender

0-2 years

65.2%
Male

32.6%
Female

2.2%
NA

₹40L

₹30L

₹20L

₹10L

₹0
Male Female

Median ₹7.00L ₹6.55L

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Salary by Gender
2-5 years
77.2%
Male
20.4%
Female
2.4%
NA

₹80L

₹60L

₹40L

₹20L

₹0
Male Female
Median ₹10.00L ₹11.75L
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Salary by Gender
5-10 years
75.4%
Male
22.3%
Female
2.3%
NA

₹80L

₹60L

₹40L

₹20L

₹0
Male Female
Median ₹20.00L ₹18.10L
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Salary by Gender

10-15 years

91.7%
Male

5.6%
Female

2.8%
NA

₹125L

₹100L

₹75L

₹50L

₹25L

₹0
Male Female

Median ₹30.00L ₹10.20L

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Salary by Gender

15+ years

83.3%

Male

16.7%

Female

₹300L

₹200L

₹100L

₹0

Male Female

Median ₹53.50L ₹76.50L

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Salary by

Location
Illustration by @paperpillar
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Salary by LOCaTion

0-2 years

17.6%

12.7%
6.1%

8.3%

Respondents

6.1%

40.9% 6.1%
1.7%

Bangalore NCR Mumbai Pune

MEDIAN

₹9.00L ₹6.30L ₹7.00L ₹5.57L

Hyderabad Chennai Others Remote

₹6.50L ₹3.10L ₹3.80L ₹4.95L

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Salary by LOCaTion
2-5 years
11.6%

10.6%
3.8%
8.2%
Respondents
11.6%
43.6% 7.2%
2.9%

Bangalore NCR Mumbai Pune

MEDIAN

₹13.50L ₹9.20L ₹7.55L ₹13.00L

Hyderabad Chennai Others Remote
₹10.60L ₹7.50L ₹6.00L ₹18.50L
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Salary by LOCaTion
5-10 years
13.9%

8.9%
4.4%
9.4%
Respondents
4.4%
43.5% 13.5% 1.6%

Bangalore NCR Mumbai Pune

MEDIAN

₹23.75L ₹24.00L ₹16.00L ₹11.75L

Hyderabad Chennai Others Remote
₹15.50L ₹14.50L ₹5.40L ₹35.00L
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Salary by LOCaTion
10-15 years
13.8%

8.3%
2.7%
5.5%
Respondents
2.7%
55.5% 11.1%

Bangalore NCR Mumbai

MEDIAN

₹40.00L ₹8.40L ₹26.00L

Pune Hyderabad Chennai Others
₹21.00L ₹17.22L ₹42.25L ₹48.00L
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Salary by LOCaTion
15+ years
8.3%

8.3%

55.5% 8.3%

Bangalore NCR
MEDIAN

₹75.00L ₹50.00L
Pune Chennai
₹57.00L ₹18.00L
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Salary by

Top Paying

Companies

Illustration by @paperpillar
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Few Top Paying
Companies
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Salary by TOP PAYING COMPANIES

Medians

Freshers/Associate UX Designer ₹6,50,000

UX Designer I ₹14,00,000

UX Designer II ₹19,25,000

Sr. UX Designer ₹32,50,000

Lead UX Designer ₹40,00,000

UX Manager ₹52,00,000

₹63,00,000
Sr. UX Manager

Director ₹79,00,000

NOTE: Since companies have different role naming conventions, we have

consolidated and formulated few levels based on our understanding. This
data could help some HRs to normalise the ranges in their companies.
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Salary by TOP PAYING COMPANIES

Medians

₹200L

₹150L

₹100L

₹50L

₹0

NOTE: The 3Cr outlier for this scatter plot to arrive at the medians for the top
paying companies’ roles.
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Companies that give

ESOPs to designers

Ally.io
Google
Phonepe

Amazon
Groww
Postman

Anuta network
HackerRank
Seeko.app

Apptium Technology
housing
ServiceNow

Atlassian
IBM
sharechat

BimaPe
Infoedge
Shopx

Coldbrew Tech
Inmobi
SmartServ

Convosight
Innovation Labs LTD.
Swiggy

CredAvenue
Intuit
Target

Credochain
Krab
Tekion Corp.

Dream11
Livspace
Testsigma

Druva
Mainstreet
Treebo

Dunzo
Makemytrip
Turnip

Facilio
Meesho
Unacademy

Fleetx.io
Microsoft
Urban Company

Flipkart
Mosaic Wellness
Verizon

Flock
Multipl Fintech
VMware

Freshworks
Myntra
Whitepanda

FrontRow
Nutanix
Wishkarma

Furlenco
Observe.AI
Xeno

FyleHQ
Ola
Zapr Media Labs

Gainsight
Paypal
Zeta

Gameskraft
Paysafe
Zolve
Gojek PharmEasy
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