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Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Job family · SOC major group

Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations is one of the 23 SOC major groups — the top level of the U.S. Standard Occupational Classification, the official scheme every detailed occupation rolls up to. It contains 45 occupations employing about 2,582,330 people, with a median wage of $66,355 across its occupations. BLS projects employment in this family to change +3.2% between 2024 and 2034 , with roughly 341,100 openings a year.

Occupation groups in this family

This family divides into 4 SOC minor groups — tighter clusters of related occupations. Ranked by U.S. employment.

Occupations in this family

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 36 occupations in Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Athletes and Sports Competitors Choreographers Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports Officials Floral Designers Sound Engineering Technicians Broadcast Technicians Coaches and Scouts Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators Photographers Music Directors and Composers Producers and Directors Film and Video Editors Special Effects Artists and Animators Commercial and Industrial Designers Art Directors Technical Writers AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Each occupation in this family with both an AI task-overlap score and a wage, plotted by task-overlap percentile (horizontal) and median-pay percentile (vertical). Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation.

Ranked by U.S. employment (BLS OEWS May 2024). Projected change is BLS 2024–34; AI exposure is the OpenAI "GPTs are GPTs" human beta rating (share of an occupation's tasks where an LLM with tools could cut the time to do them by at least half).

Occupation Median pay Employment 2024–34 AI exposure
Public Relations Specialists $69,780 280,590 +4.8% 79%
Coaches and Scouts $45,920 250,940 +6.4% 14%
Graphic Designers $61,300 214,260 +2.1% 41%
Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers $37,350 192,480 +3.2% 27%
Media Programming Directors $83,480 145,270 +4.9% 31%
Media Technical Directors/Managers $83,480 145,270 +4.9% 31%
Producers and Directors $83,480 145,270 +4.9% 31%
Talent Directors $83,480 145,270 +4.9% 31%
Editors $75,260 95,480 +0.6% 65%
Audio and Video Technicians $54,830 70,080 +3.3% 30%
Interior Designers $63,490 69,580 +3.2% 36%
Technical Writers $91,670 55,530 +0.9% 63%
Interpreters and Translators $59,440 53,360 +1.7% 84%
Photographers $42,520 51,230 +1.8% 22%
Art Directors $111,040 50,370 +4.2% 43%
Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers $72,270 47,800 +3.6% 74%
Writers and Authors $72,270 47,800 +3.6% 74%
News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists $60,280 41,550 -3.9% 63%
Floral Designers $36,120 40,160 -5.9% 27%
Actors — 38,800 +0.3% 16%
Musicians and Singers — 38,350 +1.1% 13%
Commercial and Industrial Designers $79,450 30,250 +3.2% 41%
Film and Video Editors $70,980 28,860 +4.0% 47%
Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film $68,810 24,460 +1.2% 18%
Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys $45,680 23,880 -5.5% 54%
Media and Communication Workers, All Other $71,770 23,590 +2.7% —
Special Effects Artists and Animators $99,800 21,280 +1.6% 48%
Broadcast Technicians $53,920 21,080 -2.8% 21%
Fashion Designers $80,690 20,910 +2.0% 38%
Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports Officials $38,820 15,080 +5.7% 17%
Entertainers and Performers, Sports and Related Workers, All Other — 15,040 +6.0% —
Athletes and Sports Competitors $62,360 14,370 +5.5% 0%
Sound Engineering Technicians $66,430 13,050 -1.7% 28%
Media and Communication Equipment Workers, All Other $67,190 13,020 +0.6% —
Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners $67,310 12,630 -0.3% 52%
Music Directors and Composers $63,670 12,330 -0.3% 28%
Set and Exhibit Designers $66,280 10,850 +2.3% 36%
Lighting Technicians $60,560 10,130 -4.6% 9%
Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators $60,560 10,000 -1.2% 31%
Designers, All Other $66,220 9,680 +2.0% —
Dancers — 9,060 +4.5% 4%
Disc Jockeys, Except Radio — 8,170 +3.8% 37%
Artists and Related Workers, All Other $72,760 7,370 +0.8% —
Craft Artists $38,480 4,370 +2.1% 22%
Choreographers $55,600 3,430 +6.1% 17%

AI exposure across this family

Two published studies estimate how exposed each occupation is to AI. The OpenAI "GPTs are GPTs" study rates the share of an occupation's tasks an LLM (with tools) could speed up by half or more; averaged across this family it is 36% — 52nd percentile of the 23 families. The independent Felten/Raj/Seamans AI Occupational Exposure index averages 0.26 here.

Exposure measures where AI could assist tasks — it is not a prediction that these jobs will be automated. High exposure often means augmentation (faster work), and many high-exposure occupations are also projected to grow.

Sources for 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.

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Singulariki. "Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations." 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/job-families/arts-design-entertainment-sports-and-media-occupations

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Singulariki. (2026). Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/job-families/arts-design-entertainment-sports-and-media-occupations

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