Visual and Performing Arts
Field of study · CIP 2020
Visual and Performing Arts is one of the fields of study in the U.S. Department of Education's Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP). It contains 68 detailed programs and, through the official CIP–SOC crosswalk, connects to 38 occupations employing about 3,063,820 workers, with a median wage of $67,620. The crosswalk shows which jobs a field of study is related to — not a guarantee of entry.
What the occupations pay
Median annual wage across the occupations this field of study leads to, from BLS OEWS (national, cross-industry, May 2024). The middle range is the 25th–75th percentile of those occupation medians — it describes the field, not any one job or graduate.
| Median occupation wage | $67,620 |
| Middle range (p25–p75) | $61,503 – $80,315 |
| Occupations with wage data | 32 of 38 |
AI exposure of this field of study
Two published studies estimate how exposed each occupation is to today's AI. The OpenAI "GPTs are GPTs" study rates the share of an occupation's tasks a large language model (with tools) could speed up by half or more; averaged across the occupations this field of study leads to it is 36% — 35th percentile of all fields of study. The independent Felten/Raj/Seamans AI Occupational Exposure index averages 0.33 here.
Computed across the 34 of 38 occupations this field leads to that carry a published exposure score.
The most-exposed fields of study lead to knowledge, language and analytical work; the least-exposed lead to physical trades and hands-on production. Exposure measures where AI could assist tasks, not a prediction that these jobs will be automated; high exposure most often means augmentation. Bands are comparable across the cluster, education, job-zone and field-of-study tiers (same two studies, same percentile method).
Where this field of study leads
The largest occupations connected to this field by the CIP–SOC crosswalk, by employment. Wage and employment describe the occupation, not an individual.
Programs in this field
A sample of the detailed CIP programs within this family. The full family contains 68 programs.
- 50.0506 Acting
- 50.0703 Art History, Criticism and Conservation
- 50.0701 Art/Art Studies, General
- 50.1001 Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management, General
- 50.1099 Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management, Other
- 50.0302 Ballet
- 50.0914 Brass Instruments
- 50.0711 Ceramic Arts and Ceramics
- 50.0602 Cinematography and Film/Video Production
- 50.0511 Comedy Writing and Performance
- 50.0406 Commercial Photography
- 50.0402 Commercial and Advertising Art
- 50.1101 Community/Environmental/Socially-Engaged Art
- 50.0906 Conducting
- 50.0510 Costume Design
- 50.0201 Crafts/Craft Design, Folk Art and Artisanry
- 50.0301 Dance, General
- 50.0399 Dance, Other
- 50.0401 Design and Visual Communications, General
- 50.0102 Digital Arts
- 50.0507 Directing and Theatrical Production
- 50.0607 Documentary Production
- 50.0501 Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts, General
- 50.0599 Dramatic/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft, Other
- 50.0705 Drawing
- 50.0407 Fashion/Apparel Design
- 50.0712 Fiber, Textile and Weaving Arts
- 50.0601 Film/Cinema/Media Studies
- 50.0699 Film/Video and Photographic Arts, Other
- 50.0799 Fine Arts and Art Studies, Other
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.
- O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
- BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- CIP-2020 2020 U.S. National Center for Education Statistics
- “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic
- AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans academic
Data compiled June 3, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.
Cite this page
Singulariki. "Visual and Performing Arts." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; CIP-2020 2020; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/programs/visual-and-performing-arts
Singulariki. (2026). Visual and Performing Arts. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/programs/visual-and-performing-arts
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