Senior system designer vs designer

The differences between senior system designers and designers can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. While it typically takes 1-2 years to become a senior system designer, becoming a designer takes usually requires 6-12 months. Additionally, a senior system designer has an average salary of $117,540, which is higher than the $66,347 average annual salary of a designer.

The top three skills for a senior system designer include sketch, CAD and control systems. The most important skills for a designer are sketch, customer service, and graphic design.

Senior system designer vs designer overview

	Senior System Designer	Designer
Yearly salary	$117,540	$66,347
Hourly rate	$56.51	$31.90
Growth rate	21%	3%
Number of jobs	73,999	52,433
Job satisfaction	-	5
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 50%	Bachelor's Degree, 61%
Average age	39	38
Years of experience	2	12

Senior system designer vs designer salary

Senior system designers and designers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Senior System Designer	Designer
Average salary	$117,540	$66,347
Salary range	Between $90,000 And $152,000	Between $45,000 And $97,000
Highest paying City	Seattle, WA	Seattle, WA
Highest paying state	Washington	Washington
Best paying company	Meta	Meta
Best paying industry	Transportation	Technology

Differences between senior system designer and designer education

There are a few differences between a senior system designer and a designer in terms of educational background:

	Senior System Designer	Designer
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 50%	Bachelor's Degree, 61%
Most common major	Drafting And Design	Graphic Design
Most common college	-	University of Pennsylvania

Senior system designer vs designer demographics

Here are the differences between senior system designers' and designers' demographics:

	Senior System Designer	Designer
Average age	39	38
Gender ratio	Male, 90.3% Female, 9.7%	Male, 56.9% Female, 43.1%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 4.7% Unknown, 4.9% Hispanic or Latino, 8.4% Asian, 29.7% White, 52.1% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%	Black or African American, 3.4% Unknown, 5.0% Hispanic or Latino, 10.6% Asian, 10.4% White, 70.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.4%
LGBT Percentage	8%	13%

Differences between senior system designer and designer duties and responsibilities

Senior system designer example responsibilities.

Manage relationships through CRM documentation and complete post-sale customer follow ups.
Work in the entire SDLC.
Improve architecture and design of website.
Participate in HEB's first venture into UNIX.
Provide IP routing and switching networks training to the internal engineering team.
Service orient architecture are used to isolate the services independent of each other.

Designer example responsibilities.

Lead & design all creative content stemming from apparel design to web identity.
Manage various PCB designs utilizing state of the art DFM techniques and comply with company standards.
Utilize CSS, DHTML, HTML, and JavaScript for cross browser, cross platform compatibility and consistency.
Develop different kinds of functions globally, locally for the development of forms using JavaScript, CSS.
Transform customer specifications into usable SolidWorks 3D models and assemblies from which all manufacturing are derived.
Process ECR's and ECO's using Windchill.

Senior system designer vs designer skills

Common senior system designer skills

Sketch, 33%
CAD, 10%
Control Systems, 6%
SR, 5%
Java, 5%
UI, 4%

Common designer skills

Sketch, 10%
Customer Service, 7%
Graphic Design, 6%
CSS, 5%
HTML, 4%
PowerPoint, 4%