State comparison · 2025
Interior Designers salary: California vs Pennsylvania
Interior Designers in California earn a median of $80,230. In Pennsylvania, $62,400. After cost-of-living, the gap is 13.4% — not 28.6%.
Nominal pay gap
+28.6%
California vs Pennsylvania
COL-adjusted gap
+13.4%
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%
Pennsylvania
Interior Designers
- Median
- $62,400
- p25
- $50,560
- p75
- $81,330
- p10
- $44,470
- p90
- $97,820
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 97.6
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- 0%
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.