The short answer is yes. It depends on your experience and average client size, too. If you can book a full-time client load you can easily exceed the average salary for a junior graphic designer. That is because you have more flexibility in what you can charge and the services you can offer. Freelancing gives you a chance to get paid for being fast, excellent, and efficient. With salaried positions, that is not always the case. You can also have the option to charge fixed rates (as opposed to hourly wages) which gives you a chance to make more money in less time once you get a good workflow going. Freelancing can be very rewarding because of the limitless upward mobility when it comes to new money-making client opportunities.