Illustrator
Makes images to brief for publishing, games and brands. Style is the asset and the constraint.
- Pay band (est.)
- $61k–$141k
- Time to competence
- 7 years
- Licence
- None
- Setting
- studio
- Leverage
- high
- Place constraint
- low
- Physical demand
- 12/100
- Hours burden
- 55/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play94th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge95th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage86th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand13th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay44th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body88th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy98th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit63th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility96th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill28th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load50th
Closeness to the families you marked as meaningful. Your mapping, not ours.
- Downside tolerance81th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Generative tools have compressed commercial rates sharply.
Examine this against your weights
The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.
- Place constraint is low. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
- Hours burden is 55/100 and people intensity 40/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS OEWS May 2024, Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators (27-1013): median $60,560, 90th percentile $140,660. Outlook from BLS 2025-35 projections, -2.9%. Other scores editorial. All figures are estimates for comparison.