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Textile Designers

SOC 27-1023

Create the patterns and textures printed or woven into fabrics.

The job
Median pay
$37k
$33k to $46k typical range
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Declining
-5.6% projected
Openings a year
5k
BLS projection
Typical education
Bachelor's
Our model
AI displacement risk
Low
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
4th pct
More exposed than 4% of occupations · modeled estimate · 60th pct in Microsoft's data
Future-proof
39/100

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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.

StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
California4,0800.20.9×$47k
Texas3,1000.20.8×$35k
Florida2,6000.31.0×$37k
New York2,3300.20.9×$45k
Pennsylvania1,8400.31.2×$36k
Illinois1,7600.31.1×$36k
Michigan1,6400.41.4×$36k
Ohio1,5200.31.1×$36k
Missouri1,1600.41.5×$34k
Wisconsin1,0300.41.3×$35k
All 51 states
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Georgia1,0200.20.8×$35k
New Jersey1,0200.20.9×$45k
North Carolina9900.20.8×$37k
Virginia9800.20.9×$37k
Washington9100.31.0×$44k
Tennessee8900.31.0×$36k
Massachusetts8700.20.9×$46k
Utah8300.51.8×$36k
Indiana8000.21.0×$36k
Colorado7900.31.1×$45k
Oregon7100.41.4×$45k
Minnesota5800.20.8×$37k
South Carolina5000.20.8×$32k
Connecticut4900.31.1×$39k
Kansas4900.31.3×$31k
Alabama4700.20.8×$34k
Maryland4600.20.6×$41k
Oklahoma4500.31.0×$30k
Nevada4400.31.1×$40k
Iowa4300.31.1×$35k
Kentucky4300.20.8×$35k
Louisiana4300.20.8×$30k
Arkansas4200.31.2×$30k
Arizona3900.10.5×$37k
Nebraska3900.41.5×$36k
Hawaii3800.62.3×$46k
Idaho3300.41.5×$37k
Rhode Island3100.62.4×$36k
Maine2900.51.7×$36k
Mississippi2900.21.0×$29k
Montana2900.62.2×$34k
West Virginia2500.41.4×$30k
New Hampshire2200.31.2×$43k
South Dakota1900.41.6×$34k
New Mexico1700.20.8×$34k
North Dakota1700.41.5×$35k
Wyoming1200.41.6×$35k
Vermont1100.41.4×$45k
Delaware1000.20.8×$40k
Alaska800.20.9×$48k
Washington DC700.10.4×$43k

Top metro areas

  1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ2,310 jobs · $46k median
  2. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA1,330 jobs · $48k median
  3. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN1,230 jobs · $36k median
  4. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX1,120 jobs · $36k median
  5. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD940 jobs · $37k median
  6. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL860 jobs · $38k median
  7. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH670 jobs · $47k median
  8. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA580 jobs · $47k 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.