Catalog 2021-2022

Interior Design

Employment

Interior designers held about 77,900 jobs nationally in 2019, with approximately 19 percent being self-employed. The industries that employed the most interior designers in 2019 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)
 

Source:

 Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2020-2021 edition.