Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators




Automation risk
Moderate Risk (41-60%): Occupations with a moderate risk of automation usually involve routine tasks but still require some human judgment and interaction.
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Growth
The number of 'Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators' job openings is expected to rise 6.4% by 2031
Total employment, and estimated job openings
Updated projections are due Sep 2023.
Wages
In 2022, the median annual wage for 'Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators' was $57,560, or $27.67 per hour
'Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators' were paid 24.3% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $46,310
Wages over time
Volume
As of 2022 there were 12,080 people employed as Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators within the United States.
This represents around 0.008% of the employed workforce across the country.
Put another way, around 1 in 12 thousand people are employed as Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators.
Job description
Create original artwork using any of a wide variety of media and techniques.
SOC Code: 27-1013.00
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When AI reaches the point of making art, it won't need the "A" in its initials anymore.
Secondly, robots have no creativity and empathy. They will never, never ever have them. If a hacker attack or a solar storm comes, goodbye technologies and robots.
Though they might not be able to create a brand new style of art, they will easily be able to collate hundreds of thousands of human paintings, in order to create something incredibly abstract, mesmerizing, realistic, cartoonish, or minimalistic. What may seem brand new and out of thin air, is the collection of hundreds of similar paintings, put together.
I think globalization and content mills enabled by technology are currently the issue for illustrators in the US.
It's probably going to be one of the very last ones to get automated.
ART PERFECT= BORING
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