State comparison · 2025
Interior Designers salary: California vs Colorado
Interior Designers in California earn a median of $80,230. In Colorado, $78,390. After cost-of-living, the gap is 4.7% — not 2.3%.
Nominal pay gap
+2.3%
California vs Colorado
COL-adjusted gap
-4.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
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%
Colorado
Interior Designers
- Median
- $78,390
- p25
- $61,790
- p75
- $102,510
- p10
- $48,830
- p90
- $133,810
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 103.1
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +200%
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.