All role guides

Hire a graphic designer

Social graphics, brand assets, decks and print files, made to your brand and ready to use. Every designer here passed an English test, a typing test and a design quiz before you see them.

Show me tested graphic designersBrowse graphic designers

Browsing and the AI shortlist are free.

What graphic designers cost

Freelance rate, worldwide
$15–35/hr

Typical range for graphic designers on past Upwork contracts. Upwork (opens in a new tab), checked Oct 2026

Work out a monthly cost

What a graphic designer does

  • Social media graphics from brand templates
  • Logos and brand identity
  • Pitch decks and presentations
  • Print-ready flyers and packaging files
  • Website and ad graphics
  • Fonts, colours and spacing kept consistent

How we test graphic designers

Everyone takes the same tests before a business sees them, and the scores stay on the profile. You judge the work, not the photo.
English
Read a client's email, answer five questions about it and write a reply of 80 to 150 words. AI grades the reply for grammar, clarity, tone and whether it answers the email. The result is a CEFR band from A2 to C2 with a score out of 100.
Typing
A 60-second passage written like a project update to a client. Scored on words per minute and accuracy, with 5 characters counted as a word. Only correct characters count.
Designer quiz
Six situations from client work, like a logo request with no brief, feedback that just says 'make it pop' and a print file that needs bleed, plus a short written reply to a client who doesn't like a draft. Scored out of 100.
ID check
A person on our team checks a government ID against a selfie. The images are deleted after review.
Temitope A., example profile

Temitope A.

Designer, Nigeria

English C2
85
Typing
52wpm
Designer quiz
87
Example profile. Real profiles show the same three scores, each with the date of the test.

Tested graphic designers on StaffPick

Live profiles. Each person passed the tests above, and we reviewed the profile before it went live.

A US Eastern 9-to-5 is 10 pm to 6 am in Manila, 3 pm to 11 pm in Lagos and 9 am to 5 pm in Bogotá (on EST). A Sydney 9-to-5 is 7 am to 3 pm in Manila (AEST). Every profile shows which business hours the person covers.

IANA time zone database (opens in a new tab), checked Oct 2026

Questions about hiring a graphic designer

Still unsure? Contact us. A person reads every message.

Upwork puts the typical rate for graphic designers at $15–35 an hour, from past contracts worldwide. A set of social templates is a different job from a full brand identity, so each StaffPick profile shows the person's own rate.

Keep reading

See tested graphic designers in minutes.

Show me tested graphic designers
Free to browse. Hire Direct is $79 a month when you want intros.