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Adobe Illustrator

Skill in demand · Lightcast

Adobe Illustrator is a specialized skill in the Lightcast Open Skills taxonomy — the vocabulary employers use to describe what work requires. It maps to 44 occupations that together employ about 6,320,800 workers, with a median wage of $60,560. Its reach across the occupation map is moderate. The occupations that use it sit, on average, at the 63rd percentile of AI task-exposure ( moderate) — a measure of how much the work overlaps with what AI can do, not of the skill's value. See where every skill sits.

This page is built from a crosswalk that maps each occupation's O*NET knowledge, skill, and ability requirements to the named Lightcast skill — it reflects which jobs require the skill, not a direct count of job postings. Employment and pay are BLS OEWS national figures for the occupations, not for the skill itself.

Occupations that need this skill

Occupations whose O*NET requirements map to Adobe Illustrator, ranked by employment. Wage and employment are BLS OEWS (national, cross-industry, May 2024).

Occupation Workers Median pay
Retail Salespersons 3,800,250 $34,580
Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks 385,000 $57,770
Graphic Designers 214,260 $61,300
Biofuels/Biodiesel Technology and Product Development Managers 210,340 $167,740
Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers 192,480 $37,350
Printing Press Operators 145,110 $45,160
Web and Digital Interface Designers 111,400 $98,090
Architects, Except Landscape and Naval 111,140 $96,690
Architectural and Civil Drafters 109,550 $64,280
Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 96,950 $49,390
Public Relations Managers 76,060 $138,520
Library Technicians 73,770 $39,970
Interior Designers 69,580 $63,490
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing 63,350 $40,440
English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary 59,590 $78,270
Surveying and Mapping Technicians 56,720 $51,940
Photographers 51,230 $42,520
Art Directors 50,370 $111,040
Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers 47,800 $72,270
Brokerage Clerks 40,090 $62,940
Social Science Research Assistants 32,940 $58,040
Commercial and Industrial Designers 30,250 $79,450
Film and Video Editors 28,860 $70,980
Office Machine Operators, Except Computer 24,740 $39,020
Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film 24,460 $68,810
Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers 23,420 $49,140
Prepress Technicians and Workers 23,070 $47,300
Special Effects Artists and Animators 21,280 $99,800
Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary 21,170 $77,010
Fashion Designers 20,910 $80,690
Landscape Architects 19,580 $79,660
Museum Technicians and Conservators 13,070 $47,460
Set and Exhibit Designers 10,850 $66,280
Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators 10,000 $60,560
Geological Technicians, Except Hydrologic Technicians 9,710 $48,390
Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers 8,470 $40,860
Etchers and Engravers 8,390 $40,450
Archivists 7,050 $61,570
Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators 5,550 $40,100
Proofreaders and Copy Markers 5,160 $49,210
Fabric and Apparel Patternmakers 2,860 $67,670
Sewers, Hand 2,240 $33,760
Animal Breeders 1,730 $52,000
Cytogenetic Technologists — —
Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 40 occupations in occupations that need Adobe Illustrator. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Sewers, Hand Animal Breeders Printing Press Operators Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators Fabric and Apparel Patternmakers Geological Technicians, Except Hydrologic Technicians Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators Biofuels/Biodiesel Technology and Product Development Managers Retail Salespersons Special Effects Artists and Animators Surveying and Mapping Technicians Fashion Designers Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks Architectural and Civil Drafters Art Directors Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Occupations that need Adobe Illustrator, by AI task-overlap and median pay

How this skill maps to occupations

The O*NET attribute types that bridge to this Lightcast skill, and how many of the mapped occupations each accounts for.

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Datasets behind this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

Cite this page
Plain

Singulariki. "Adobe Illustrator." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/demand-skills/adobe-illustrator

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Adobe Illustrator. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/demand-skills/adobe-illustrator

BibTeX 
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  title  = {Adobe Illustrator},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/demand-skills/adobe-illustrator}
}

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