Employment

Interior designers held about 75,400 jobs nationally in 2018, with approximately 19 percent being self-employed. The industries that employed the most interior designers in 2016 were as follows:

• Specialized design services (28 percent)
• Architectural, engineering, and related services (18 percent)
• Furniture stores (6 percent)
• Merchant wholesalers of durable goods (6 percent)
• Self-employed workers (23 percent)

Employment of interior designers is expected to grow 4 percent from 2018 through 2028.

Source:

 Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2019-2020 edition.