Employment

Interior designers held about 66,500 jobs nationally in 2016, with approximately 25 percent being self-employed. The industries that employed the most interior designers in 2012 were as follows:

• Specialized design services (31 percent)
• Architectural, engineering, and related services (16 percent)
• Furniture stores (7 percent)
• Merchant wholesalers of durable goods (5 percent)
• Self-employed workers (19 percent)

Employment of interior designers is expected to grow 4 percent from 2016 through 2026

Source:

 Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2017-2018 edition.