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Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators

Create original artwork using any of a wide variety of media and techniques.

50 AI exposure
28 Human advantage
48 Market demand
40 AI leverage

Is Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators a safe career from AI?

Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators scores 50 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is low. Most of what this job involves is not the kind of task current AI systems are good at, largely because it happens in a physical place rather than on a screen.

Its human advantage score is 28, 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 48 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 2.9% over ten years.

What Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators pay

The median wage is $60,560 a year. The lower quarter earns under $39,740 and the upper quarter over $89,630. About 10,000 people do this work in the United States.

Where Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators can go next

Occupations that share most of what this job already requires, ranked by how much carries over.

Special Effects Artists and Animators 66% of the skills carry over $100k median
Film and Video Editors 70% of the skills carry over $71k median
Marine Engineers and Naval Architects 55% of the skills carry over $106k median
Manufacturing Engineers 55% of the skills carry over $101k median

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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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