Headline risk
27%
Moderate RiskFine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators
United States AI Work Index tracks this occupation on the shared structural baseline and then layers on local demand resilience, wages, and confidence.
Why This Score
Share of job tasks that overlap with current AI capabilities
Median annual wage
Projected employment change over 10 years
Typical preparation needed for this occupation
Occupation profile
Create original artwork using any of a wide variety of media and techniques.
Task evidence
100% weighted task match · 31% effective coverage
Scores combine AI task overlap, human advantages, and local demand. How it works
United States Now
Median Wage
USD 60,560
Employment 2024
26.5K
Projected Change (2024–34)
-1.2%
Openings (2024–34)
2.2K
Wage distribution
Demand outlook
Overall employment of craft and fine artists is projected to decline 0 percent from 2024 to 2034.
Role Profile
Tasks
- 1. Integrate and develop visual elements, such as line, space, mass, color, and perspective, to produce desired effects, such as the illustration of ideas, emotions, or moods. AI use: 96%
- 2. Use materials such as pens and ink, watercolors, charcoal, oil, or computer software to create artwork. AI use: 98%
- 3. Maintain portfolios of artistic work to demonstrate styles, interests, and abilities. AI use: 0%
- 4. Study different techniques to learn how to apply them to artistic endeavors. AI use: 0%
- 5. Confer with clients, editors, writers, art directors, and other interested parties regarding the nature and content of artwork to be produced. AI use: 87%
- 6. Submit preliminary or finished artwork or project plans to clients for approval, incorporating changes as necessary. AI use: 0%
Technologies
Requirements
Work context
Worker profile
Median age 43.1 · 485K employed
Under 25: 11% · 25–54: 65% · 55+: 25%
Related
No direct US role match is available yet for this occupation.
Source coverage
11/11 source families · O*NET 30.2 / OEWS 2024 / ORS 2025 / OOH 2025-08-28 / Projections 2024-34 / CPS 2025 / Anthropic task penetration
Mapping quality
crosswalk_exact · employment series present
Narrative & sources
Craft and fine artists use a variety of materials and techniques to create art for sale and exhibition.
Many artists work in fine- or commercial-art studios located in office buildings, warehouses, or lofts. Others work in private studios in their homes. Some artists share studio space, where they also may exhibit their work.
Craft and fine artists improve their skills through practice and repetition. A bachelor’s degree is common for these artists.
The median annual wage for craft and fine artists was $56,260 in May 2024.
Overall employment of craft and fine artists is projected to decline 0 percent from 2024 to 2034.
Published limitations
This page shows the local country layer, not realised individual job outcomes. The global structural baseline is shared across countries; only the local demand and wage layer changes here.
Built from O*NET occupation descriptions, task statements, technology skills, work context, Job Zones, Anthropic task penetration, BLS OEWS wages, BLS projection tables, BLS ORS requirements, BLS OOH narrative content, BLS skills data, and BLS CPS occupation age tables.