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Art Directors

Formulate design concepts and presentation approaches for visual productions and media, such as print, broadcasting, video, and film. Direct workers engaged in artwork or layout design.

88 AI exposure
23 Human advantage
58 Market demand
59 AI leverage

Is Art Directors a safe career from AI?

Art Directors scores 88 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is high. A large share of this work is the kind current AI systems are measurably good at. That is not a prediction the job disappears, and the research does not support one. It means more of this role is likely to change than most.

Its human advantage score is 23, which is low. Most of this role can be done through a screen, and that is the half of the labor market AI has reached first. Market demand scores 58 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment roughly flat over ten years.

What Art Directors pay

The median wage is $111,040 a year. The lower quarter earns under $80,130 and the upper quarter over $160,460. About 50,370 people do this work in the United States.

Where Art Directors can go next

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Where this comes from

Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.

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