Why is the layout designer's salary the same as that of the Junior Frontend?

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Now I'm on the way to changing my profession to a web programmer.
At the point of entry into the profession, he intended to work to go to the position of Junior Frontend. But there is another option - a layout designer, and then go to the front-end.
The main requirements for a layout designer are HTML, CSS (+ preprocessors), JQuery (a little JS), Bootstrap 4, project builders, GIT, and some other little things.
For a junior friend, the above skills are supplemented by fluency in JavaScript, NodeJS, knowledge of frameworks such as React, View or Angular, PHP, SQL, CMS.
Looking through the vacancies, I was very surprised that the salaries of the layout designer and the junior frontendand were approximately at the same level. For Moscow, on average, 50-60.
But at the same time, the set of requirements for a junior and the amount of knowledge required for work are much greater.
With what it can be connected? The layout designer's work is more labor-intensive and monotonous, is that why?
What position is better for a beginner (but promising) specialist to strive to get into?
About me: I work in marketing, but the dough is connected with web projects. For the last half of the year, I have actively deepened in the study of programming. I’m already typing calmly (I had experience before), but I’m still not up to the frontend: I need to tighten up the frameworks, php and cms knowledge. I want to understand the direction in which to move: to develop a good portfolio of a layout designer, or to delve into the study of front-end.

Answer 1

A layout designer will receive no more than 50
in a year. A junior front-ender can become a middle one in a year or two and receive 100+.
ps And yes, a novice coder is unlikely to be paid 50k

Answer 2

With what it can be connected?

Because front-end juniors are like dirt, and high competition in the junior market allows employers to dictate any conditions, including low wages.
And if you think that a jun will really get 50-60 tyr, you are mistaken, a person who is quite an advanced jun-non-middle will be taken in place of a jun, there is simply nowhere else to go.

Answer 3

Probably because it's the same

Answer 4

If the employer writes 50k, this does not mean that he will pay 50k.
I once came for an interview with such an employer, a layout designer, to his question about the desired salary, I offered the one indicated on the site (50), to which he said this for senior layout designers, who we don’t have in the city , but offered he is 10k. I couldn't stop laughing until I left.
And yes, layout designers are most often unpromising, 50k is usually the ceiling.