State comparison · 2025
Interior Designers salary: Alabama vs California
Interior Designers in California earn a median of $80,230. In Alabama, $61,050. After cost-of-living, the gap is 5.1% — not 23.9%.
Nominal pay gap
-23.9%
Alabama vs California
COL-adjusted gap
-5.1%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Alabama
Interior Designers
- Median
- $61,050
- p25
- $41,240
- p75
- $75,430
- p10
- $32,560
- p90
- $103,030
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 88.8
California
Interior Designers
- Median
- $80,230
- p25
- $63,370
- p75
- $102,940
- p10
- $50,940
- p90
- $131,770
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 110.7
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -71%
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Cost-of-living adjustment from BEA Regional Price Parities (overall index). Hiring velocity from DOL OFLC public disclosure data, recent 180 days vs prior. See methodology.