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Did you know??

  • 1.25 million Americans work in the visual arts.
  • One in 111 jobs is in art and design.
  • The economic impact of art and design exceeds that of sports worldwide.
  • The creative industries are an estimated $30 billion export     annually.
  • Jobs in design have increased 43% in the past ten years.
  • Yearly sales of art reach an estimated $10 billion in the United States alone
  • There are over 532,000 designers working in the U.S.
  • More people are employed in the visual arts than in all of the performing arts and sports industries combined.
  • 200,000 people are employed in the film industry
  •  People spend approximately $55 billion annually on video games.
  • The computer animation industry generates $33 billion annually.
  • Jobs and employment in many creative industries are growing faster than the labor force as a whole and make up 30% of the work force by some estimates.
  • America’s nonprofit arts industry generates $134 billion in economic activity every year.
  • By 2016, jobs for artists and designers are predicted to increase by 42%.
  • Arts-related businesses in the country's largest cities represent 4.3% of all businesses and 2.2% of all jobs in the United States.
  • There are 3 million people working for over 600,000 arts-centric businesses in the United States.
  • Employment growth by arts-centric businesses since 2007 was 12%, more than four times the rise in the total number of U.S. employees.
  • Designers are the single largest group of artists, followed by performing artists such as actors, dancers, musicians, and announcers.
  •  Wage and salary employment in the motion picture and video industries is projected to grow 11% by 2016.
  • Animators, film and video editors, and others skilled in digital filming and
       computer-generated imaging have the best job prospects in future of the            motion picture and video industries.
  • There are about 94,000 computer artists and animators working in the United   States.· Jobs for photographers have increased 38% in the past four years.
 
Sources: Americans for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Entertainment Software Association.