State comparison · 2025
Interior Designers salary: California vs New Jersey
Interior Designers in California earn a median of $80,230. In New Jersey, $74,020. After cost-of-living, the gap is 6.5% — not 8.4%.
Nominal pay gap
+8.4%
California vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
+6.5%
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%
New Jersey
Interior Designers
- Median
- $74,020
- p25
- $58,810
- p75
- $104,060
- p10
- $46,890
- p90
- $134,780
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +500%
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.