State comparison · 2025
Interior Designers salary: Arizona vs California
Interior Designers in California earn a median of $80,230. In Arizona, $61,460. After cost-of-living, the gap is 15.8% — not 23.4%.
Nominal pay gap
-23.4%
Arizona vs California
COL-adjusted gap
-15.8%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Arizona
Interior Designers
- Median
- $61,460
- p25
- $55,150
- p75
- $81,110
- p10
- $48,380
- p90
- $97,850
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 100.7
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.