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Commercial and Industrial Designers pay in Kansas and Utah
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Commercial and Industrial Designers is $104,870 per year in Kansas. It is $62,620 per year in Utah. Kansas is 67.5% above Utah on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 27-1021 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 260 wage and salary jobs in Kansas and 480 in Utah. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.
Evidence: bls-oews-may-2025 · Rule: same-soc-same-metric-pair · nominal-median-gap · employment-not-openings