Overview & Salary

Overview

Design or create graphics to meet specific commercial or promotional needs, such as packaging, displays, or logos. May use a variety of mediums to achieve artistic or decorative effects.

On the job, you would:

  • Key information into computer equipment to create layouts for client or supervisor.
  • Review final layouts and suggest improvements, as needed.
  • Determine size and arrangement of illustrative material and copy, and select style and size of type.

Education

  • bachelor's degree
  • high school diploma/GED

Salary

Annual 10th percentile $36,420
Annual median $58,910
Annual 90th percentile $100,450

Knowledge & Skills

Knowledge

Engineering and Technology

  • design
  • computers and electronics

Arts and Humanities

  • music, dance, visual arts, drama, or sculpture
  • English language

Communications

  • multimedia

Business

  • sales and marketing

Skills

Basic Skills

  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • talking to others

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Social

  • changing what is done based on other people's actions
  • understanding people's reactions

Personality & Abilities

Personality

Artistic

People interested in this work like activities that include creating, designing, and making your own rules.

  • Attention to Detail
  • Dependability
  • Adaptability/Flexibility
  • Cooperation
  • Innovation
  • Initiative

Abilities

Verbal

  • read and understand what is written
  • listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

  • create new and original ideas
  • come up with lots of ideas
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