Occupation / job
Artists and Related Workers, All Other
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
At $71,240 against a $50,020 midpoint, Artists and Related Workers, All Other pays $21,220 a year more than the typical American job — $10.20 an hour. Nothing pays that much more for free, and the thing it is paid for is what you should be reading about.
Employment as Artists and Related Workers, All Other stands at 6,930. That is small enough that your local market may have a dozen posts in total; mobility will matter more to your earnings than seniority does.
These roles suit people who can work to somebody else’s objective without losing the standard they hold their own work to.
We carry no verified training length for Artists and Related Workers, All Other — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
The middle half of Artists and Related Workers, All Other spans $42,010 to $115,150, which is 2.7x and $6,095 a month. Ask what puts someone at the top of a range like this before assuming time served does it, because usually it does not.
A quarter of Artists and Related Workers, All Other earn less than $42,010, $8,010 off the $50,020 national midpoint — $20.19 an hour. The floor here is close enough to ordinary that the case against this work, if there is one, is not financial.
Avoid it if revision by committee would demoralise you — the final version is rarely the one you would have chosen.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 6,930 figure counts people already working as Artists and Related Workers, All Other, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
A ratio of 2.7x between $42,010 and $115,150 means the top of this occupation and the bottom of it are barely the same labour market. $71,240 is arithmetically the middle and practically a description of very few people.
The middle half of this field earns between $42,010 and $115,150. That is $73,140 of range, with $71,240 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Between $42,010 and $115,150 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $71,240. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $43,910; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $73,140.
$43,910 separates $71,240 from the $115,150 top quarter, while only $29,230 separates it from $42,010. The range leans upward, which means the middle of Artists and Related Workers, All Other has more room above it than a symmetric reading of the median would suggest.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $34.25 at the midpoint for Artists and Related Workers, All Other, $20.19 at the 25th percentile and $55.36 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $71,240 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
The hourly number on this page is $71,240 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Artists and Related Workers, All Other, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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