Sorry, but you guys with the math and the charts are wrong. But then it does depend on the designer and the scope of what they do and the quality of their work. I'm not going to put out any actual numbers, but I've been designing for ten years, and a 6 figure designer for 7 of those, with multiple companies and clients, and the big shot mainstream graphic designers make far more than that and do less projects. And then there is also the other end of the spectrum... the fresh design grads that are starving and eating ramen. The field is definitely over saturated, but then, what field isn't these days.
