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Interior Designers

SOC 27-1025

Design interior spaces that work well and look intentional.

The job
Median pay
$67k
$52k to $86k typical range
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Growing
+2.7% projected
Openings a year
8k
BLS projection
Typical education
Bachelor's
Our model
AI displacement risk
High
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
6/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
57th pct
More exposed than 57% of occupations · modeled estimate · 71st pct in Microsoft's data
Future-proof
44/100

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Key skills

Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
California8,5000.51.0×$80k
Florida7,4100.71.6×$61k
Texas6,4500.51.0×$65k
New York5,3400.61.2×$76k
Georgia3,0500.61.4×$72k
North Carolina2,6100.51.1×$61k
Illinois2,5700.40.9×$76k
Colorado2,3000.81.7×$78k
Ohio2,1800.40.8×$61k
Michigan1,9300.40.9×$59k
All 51 states
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Pennsylvania1,8200.30.7×$62k
New Jersey1,6700.40.8×$74k
Arizona1,6000.51.1×$61k
Massachusetts1,5800.40.9×$80k
Virginia1,5500.40.8×$63k
Tennessee1,5300.51.0×$64k
Maryland1,4400.51.1×$65k
Washington1,3300.40.8×$77k
Minnesota1,2200.40.9×$73k
Wisconsin1,2000.40.9×$63k
Utah1,1100.61.4×$62k
Oregon1,0300.51.1×$66k
Indiana1,0200.30.7×$63k
Missouri1,0100.30.8×$60k
South Carolina9400.40.9×$64k
Arkansas7400.61.2×$70k
Connecticut6300.40.8×$67k
Alabama6200.30.6×$61k
Washington DC6200.91.9×$98k
Nevada5900.40.8×$61k~
Rhode Island5501.12.4×$58k
Iowa5100.30.7×$58k
Kentucky4900.20.5×$59k
Oklahoma4900.30.6×$69k
Nebraska4300.40.9×$65k
Kansas4000.30.6×$61k
Idaho3500.40.9×$53k~
Louisiana3500.20.4×$61k
Mississippi3300.30.6×$44k
New Hampshire3000.40.9×$64k
Montana2900.61.2×$62k
Hawaii2700.40.9×$64k
Maine2300.40.8×$64k
Delaware1900.40.8×$60k
North Dakota1600.40.8×$59k
South Dakota1500.30.7×$65k
Vermont1100.40.8×$64k
New Mexico900.10.2×$61k
West Virginia900.10.3×$50k
Wyoming900.30.7×$96k
Alaska400.10.3×$63k

Top metro areas

  1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ5,460 jobs · $77k median
  2. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA3,880 jobs · $80k median
  3. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL3,090 jobs · $61k median
  4. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA2,430 jobs · $72k median
  5. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX2,420 jobs · $65k median
  6. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN2,250 jobs · $77k median
  7. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV1,840 jobs · $80k median
  8. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA1,810 jobs · $87k median

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Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2025-2035). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.