Employment

Interior designers held about 58,900 jobs nationally in 2014, with approximately 25 percent being self-employed. The industries that employed the most interior designers in 2012 were as follows:

• Specialized design services (30 percent)
• Architectural, engineering, and related services (15 percent)
• Furniture stores (8 percent)
• Merchant wholesalers of durable goods (6 percent)
• Construction (4 percent)

Employment of interior designers is expected to grow 4 percent from 2014 through 2024.

Source:

 Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2016-2017 edition.