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How does your pay compare with typical pay in arts, design, media and sports jobs?

The typical (median) worker in arts, design, media and sports jobs in the U.S. earned $62,750 a year in May 2025, about $1,207 a week. That is 23% more than the median for all occupations ($50,980 a year) and 4% less than the typical full-time worker's $1,251 a week in the second quarter of 2026. It ranks 8th of the 22 major job groups by typical pay.

Typical arts, design, media and sports pay

$62,750

a year, about $30.17 an hour

All occupations

$50,980

a year, May 2025

Typical full-time worker

$1,251

a week, Q2 2026

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Chartly, “How does your pay compare with typical pay in arts, design, media and sports jobs?”, from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data as of May 31, 2025. https://chart.ly/salary-check/arts-design-media-and-sports

Typical pay in other kinds of jobs

  1. 1. Management $126,520
  2. 2. Computers and math $109,280
  3. 3. Legal $102,500
  4. 4. Architecture and engineering $99,520
  5. 5. Doctors, nurses and other health practitioners $86,530
  6. 6. Business and finance $82,660
  7. 7. Science $82,530
  8. 8. Arts, design, media and sports $62,750
  9. 9. Teaching and libraries $60,570
  10. 10. Installation, maintenance and repair $59,620
  11. 11. Construction and extraction $59,540
  12. 12. Community and social service $58,300
  13. 13. Protective service $50,080
  14. 14. Office and administrative support $47,450
  15. 15. Production $46,990
  16. 16. Transportation and moving goods $44,350
  17. 17. Sales $38,530
  18. 18. Healthcare support $38,340
  19. 19. Building cleaning and grounds $37,680
  20. 20. Farming, fishing and forestry $36,630
  21. 21. Personal care and service $36,410
  22. 22. Food preparation and serving $35,050

Median annual pay in May 2025. All occupations: $50,980.

How these figures are measured

  • Typical pay is the median: half the workers earn more and half earn less. Pay is before taxes and leaves out the self-employed.
  • Pay by job group is from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey of employers, for May 2025. It counts full-time and part-time workers; BLS turns hourly pay into a year's at 2,080 hours (40 hours a week, every week). Each group mixes many jobs, so pay for one job can differ a lot from its group's.
  • The typical full-time worker's pay is from the Current Population Survey of households: usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers in the second quarter of 2026.
  • Neither figure is adjusted for where you live, how long you've worked or your hours.

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