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title: "What can you do with a graphic design degree?"
description: "14 careers graphic design graduates commonly move into, with BLS median pay, projected growth and entry requirements for each."
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# What can you do with a graphic design degree?

**What the degree involves:** Typography, colour, layout, brand systems, and critique sessions on your own work.

Design is judged on a portfolio, so the destination you reach depends heavily on what you made during the degree rather than on the degree itself. The list runs from print and brand work through digital product and web design to the moving-image and environmental specialisms.

14 common destinations, ordered most common first rather than highest paid first. 0 of 14 have a master's or a doctoral or professional degree as their BLS typical entry education, and 13 of 14 are projected to grow. A major is a body of study, not a job assignment: these are destinations of people who took the degree, not what the degree entitles anyone to.

| # | Occupation | Median annual wage | Projected change | Openings a year | Typical entry education |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Graphic Designer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/graphic-designer) | $62,960 | +2.1% | 20,000 | Bachelor's |
| 2 | Web Designer | $104,000 | +7.0% | 9,100 | Bachelor's |
| 3 | Special Effects Artist and Animator | $102,030 | +1.6% | 5,000 | Bachelor's |
| 4 | Film and Video Editor | $75,420 | +4.0% | 3,600 | Bachelor's |
| 5 | Photographer | $44,660 | +1.8% | 12,700 | High school |
| 6 | Commercial and Industrial Designer | $83,910 | +3.2% | 2,500 | Bachelor's |
| 7 | Video Game Designer | $104,000 | +7.0% | 9,100 | Bachelor's |
| 8 | Interior Designer | $67,190 | +3.2% | 7,800 | Bachelor's |
| 9 | Set and Exhibit Designer | $75,240 | +2.3% | 2,500 | Bachelor's |
| 10 | Fashion Designer | $80,960 | +2.0% | 2,300 | Bachelor's |
| 11 | Craft Artist | $46,080 | +2.1% | 1,000 | No formal credential |
| 12 | [Producer and Director](https://nuecareer.com/careers/producer-and-director) | $90,360 | +4.9% | 12,800 | Bachelor's |
| 13 | Art Director | $114,850 | +4.2% | 12,300 | Bachelor's |
| 14 | Advertising and Promotions Manager | $133,660 | -2.2% | 2,100 | Bachelor's |

Wages are BLS OEWS, May 2025. Projected change, annual openings and typical entry education are BLS Employment Projections. Occupation descriptions are O\*NET. Nothing on this page is estimated and no figure is generated by an AI model.

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

O\*NET content is used under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). How these figures are sourced and derived: https://nuecareer.com/careers/methodology