Arts, Design & Media

Motion Graphics Designers

SOC 27-1014

Bring graphics and brands to life through animated video and motion.

The job

Median pay

$102k

$75k to $139k typical range

Outlook, 2025 to 2035

Declining

-0.3% projected

Openings a year

4.2k

BLS projection

Typical education

Bachelor's

Our model

AI displacement risk

Very high

How much of this job AI may do instead of the person

Works with AI

3/100

AI alongside the person rather than instead of them

AI exposure

96th pct

More exposed than 96% of occupations · modeled estimate · 45th pct in Microsoft's data

Future-proof

38/100

At a glance

The AI read on Motion Graphics Designers: 96th percentile exposure, very high displacement risk, 3/100 working with AI, tilting toward AI replacing tasks. BLS projects employment to shrink 0.3% from 2025 to 2035, 4.0 points below typical growth across the occupations we cover. Annual openings for Motion Graphics Designers come to about 4,200. Getting in usually takes a bachelor's degree. Median pay is $102,030, 52% above the typical occupation we cover, and 40% above the median across Arts, Design & Media. Annual openings for Musicians & Singers run about 4 times as high.

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Key skills

Active Listening
Reading Comprehension
Critical Thinking
Speaking
Writing
Active Learning

Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 50 states and DC. 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.

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
California	7,410	0.4	3.2×	$131k
New York	1,540	0.2	1.2×	$97k
Florida	1,530	0.2	1.2×	$86k
Texas	1,378 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	0.8× (estimated)	$79k
Washington	1,130	0.3	2.5×	$133k
Oregon	870	0.4	3.4×	$105k (estimated)
Illinois	630	0.1	0.8×	$81k
Massachusetts	479 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$81k
Virginia	380	0.1	0.7×	$82k
Nevada	370	0.2	1.9×	$97k

All 50 states and DC

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
North Carolina	370	0.1	0.6×	$88k
Georgia	350	0.1	0.6×	$81k
Washington DC	332 (estimated)	0.5 (estimated)	3.7× (estimated)	$165k (estimated)
New Jersey	320	0.1	0.6×	$121k (estimated)
Utah	320	0.2	1.4×	$88k
Indiana	300	0.1	0.7×	$75k
Pennsylvania	300	0.0	0.4×	$72k
Michigan	230	0.1	0.4×	$87k
Connecticut	221 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$112k (estimated)
Colorado	210	0.1	0.6×	$91k
Wisconsin	210	0.1	0.6×	$65k
South Carolina	204 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	0.7× (estimated)	$82k (estimated)
Ohio	200	0.0	0.3×	$67k
Arizona	190	0.1	0.5×	$90k
Louisiana	182 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	0.7× (estimated)	$81k (estimated)
Iowa	181 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$48k
Maryland	170	0.1	0.5×	$86k
Kansas	158 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$63k
Oklahoma	155 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	0.7× (estimated)	$67k
Arkansas	112 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	0.7× (estimated)	$72k (estimated)
Alabama	110	0.1	0.4×	$80k (estimated)
Hawaii	92 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$94k (estimated)
Idaho	91 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	0.8× (estimated)	$80k (estimated)
Nebraska	90	0.1	0.7×	$51k
Tennessee	90	0.0	0.2×	$83k
Mississippi	88 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	0.6× (estimated)	$71k (estimated)
Missouri	80	0.0	0.2×	$65k
New Mexico	80	0.1	0.7×	$54k
Montana	78 (estimated)	0.2 (estimated)	1.2× (estimated)	$83k (estimated)
Maine	76 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$86k (estimated)
Rhode Island	75 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.2× (estimated)	$80k
New Hampshire	68 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	0.8× (estimated)	$97k (estimated)
North Dakota	48 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$80k (estimated)
South Dakota	48 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	0.8× (estimated)	$75k (estimated)
Vermont	46 (estimated)	0.2 (estimated)	1.2× (estimated)	$102k (estimated)
Kentucky	40	0.0	0.2×	$51k
West Virginia	40	0.1	0.4×	$61k
Delaware	39 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	0.6× (estimated)	$97k (estimated)
Alaska	31 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	0.7× (estimated)	$87k (estimated)
Minnesota	30	0.0	0.1×	$65k
Wyoming	24 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	0.7× (estimated)	$82k (estimated)

Top metro areas

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA4,650 jobs · $125k median
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ1,560 jobs · $97k median
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA1,440 jobs · $137k median
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA1,030 jobs · $134k median
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL960 jobs · $91k median
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA690 jobs
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN550 jobs · $83k median
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA510 jobs · $157k 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.