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Occupation

Interior Designers

Plan, design, and furnish the internal space of rooms or buildings. Design interior environments or create physical layouts that are practical, aesthetic, and conducive to the intended purposes. May specialize in a particular field, style, or phase of interior design.

90 AI exposure
29 Human advantage
58 Market demand
63 AI leverage

Is Interior Designers a safe career from AI?

Interior Designers scores 90 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 29, 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 Interior Designers pay

The median wage is $63,490 a year. The lower quarter earns under $49,770 and the upper quarter over $80,830. About 69,580 people do this work in the United States.

Where Interior Designers 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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