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Makeup Artists, Theatrical and Performance

Apply makeup to performers to reflect period, setting, and situation of their role.

53 AI exposure
49 Human advantage
54 Market demand
51 AI leverage

Is Makeup Artists, Theatrical and Performance a safe career from AI?

Makeup Artists, Theatrical and Performance scores 53 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 49. There is a real physical and in-person component to this work, alongside a good deal that could be done from anywhere. Market demand scores 54 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 6.1% over ten years.

What Makeup Artists, Theatrical and Performance pay

The median wage is $50,280 a year. The lower quarter earns under $28,850 and the upper quarter over $132,530. About 3,320 people do this work in the United States.

Where Makeup Artists, Theatrical and Performance can go next

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

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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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