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Title: Onboarding Designer hourly rate in Virginia | Deftridge
Summary: Onboarding Designer pay in Virginia: median wage $45 an hour, typical part-time contractor rate $75. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2024.

VA · United States · **Updated November 3, 2026**

# Onboarding Designer hourly rate in Virginia

The market median wage for an Onboarding Designer in Virginia is **$44.75 an hour**. A senior part-time contractor typically receives **$75 an hour** on Deftridge, +15% against the United States rate.

**$75/hr** typical contractor rate, senior

**$44.75/hr** median wage

**$33-59** middle half of wages

**$1,630** a month at 5 hours a week

## Onboarding Designer wage percentiles in Virginia

Employee wages for the role. The yellow row is the median.

| Percentile | Per hour | 5 h a week, per month | Full time, per year |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 10th | $24.42 | $530 | $50,800 |
| 25th | $32.90 | $710 | $68,400 |
| Median | $44.75 | $970 | $93,100 |
| 75th | $58.99 | $1,280 | $122,700 |
| 90th | $75.15 | $1,630 | $156,300 |

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2024; aged to October 2026; about 15,290 people employed in the role. [How rates are built](https://deftridge.com/rates/methodology/).

## Virginia in numbers

What sets Virginia apart for an Onboarding Designer, from the same sources as the table above.

- **+15%** median wage against the United States median of $38.92

- **8th of 51** states by median wage for this role

- **15,290** people employed in the role in this place

- **$44.23** median wage in the Charlottesville metro area, the highest here

- **$35** country floor: no United States rate is published below it

## What contractors receive

The Deftridge rate for an Onboarding Designer in Virginia by level and by format. The company adds 15% on top; you keep all of the rate shown.

| Level | Per hour | Per month at 5 h/week |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Senior | $75 | $1,630 |
| Manager | $90 | $1,950 |

- One-off task **$75**

- Task bundle **$65**

## Onboarding Designer pay across United States

Typical contractor rate for a senior Onboarding Designer, highest first; 10 of 51 places shown. By median wage Virginia ranks **8 of 51**.

| Place | Median wage | Contractor rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| District of Columbia | $51.64 | $85 |
| Wyoming | $51.02 | $85 |
| California | $50.29 | $85 |
| Delaware | $48.50 | $80 |
| Alaska | $45.86 | $75 |
| New York | $45.28 | $75 |
| Virginia | $44.75 | $75 |
| Rhode Island | $44.39 | $75 |
| Connecticut | $44.03 | $75 |
| New Hampshire | $43.86 | $70 |

## Metro areas in Virginia

Median employee wage for the role in the metro area (BLS OEWS).

- [Charlottesville $44.23/hr median wage · range $35-54](https://deftridge.com/rates/onboarding-designer/virginia/)

- [Virginia Beach $43.49/hr median wage · range $32-55](https://deftridge.com/rates/onboarding-designer/virginia/)

- [Richmond $43.01/hr median wage · range $32-55](https://deftridge.com/rates/onboarding-designer/virginia/)

- [Lynchburg $42.73/hr median wage · range $32-52](https://deftridge.com/rates/onboarding-designer/virginia/)

- [Blacksburg $38.71/hr median wage · range $30-48](https://deftridge.com/rates/onboarding-designer/virginia/)

- [Roanoke $36.18/hr median wage · range $28-46](https://deftridge.com/rates/onboarding-designer/virginia/)

- [Staunton $35.92/hr median wage · range $32-45](https://deftridge.com/rates/onboarding-designer/virginia/)

- [Winchester $35.43/hr median wage · range $28-46](https://deftridge.com/rates/onboarding-designer/virginia/)

- [Harrisonburg $34.16/hr median wage · range $26-42](https://deftridge.com/rates/onboarding-designer/virginia/)

## Questions about pay, fees and privacy

The same rules apply to every task, so they live on two pages: [Pricing](https://deftridge.com/pricing/) explains the 15% fee, prepayment and when you are paid; [How it works](https://deftridge.com/how-it-works/) covers matching, what a company sees and side work next to a job.

[Onboarding Designer rates in every country](https://deftridge.com/rates/onboarding-designer/) · [Onboarding Designer jobs in Virginia](https://deftridge.com/jobs/onboarding-designer/virginia/) · [Methodology](https://deftridge.com/rates/methodology/)