Art studies majors have a hard time finding a job right out of college. Graduates with an art studies degree are entering a strange job market and it can be hard to find your first job in art studies. To make finding a job easier, Zippia scanned through 752 art studies major resumes to identify the jobs art studies majors most prefer.
Highest-Paying Jobs With a Art Studies Degree
- Starting Salary$45,000Job openings52,433Top Locations:Job Description:Graphic designers create visual concepts, using computer software or by hand, to communicate ideas that inspire, inform, and captivate consumers. They develop the overall layout and production design for various applications such as advertisements, brochures, magazines, and corporate reports.
- Starting Salary$40,000Job openings80,018Top Locations:Job Description:Physical therapist assistants, sometimes called PTAs, and physical therapist aides work under the direction and supervision of physical therapists. They help patients who are recovering from injuries and illnesses regain movement and manage pain.
- Starting Salary$34,000Job openings45,625Top Locations:Job Description:Graphic designers create visual concepts, using computer software or by hand, to communicate ideas that inspire, inform, and captivate consumers. They develop the overall layout and production design for various applications such as advertisements, brochures, magazines, and corporate reports.
- Starting Salary$34,000Job openings13,226Top Locations:New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Chicago, IL;Job Description:Recreational therapists plan, direct, and coordinate recreation-based treatment programs for people with disabilities, injuries, or illnesses. Recreational therapists use a variety of modalities, including arts and crafts, drama, music, dance, sports, games, and community reintegration field trips to help maintain or improve a patient’s physical, social, and emotional well-being.
- Starting Salary$27,000Job openings15,940Top Locations:Job Description:A Brand Ambassador promotes a company’s image in a positive manner in front of customers. They represent the company, interacteracting with the general public at events, promoting the brand on TV or radio, and doing product demonstrations, among other duties.
- Starting Salary$26,000Job openings223,323Top Locations:Job Description:Customer service representatives interact with customers to handle complaints, process orders, and provide information about an organization’s products and services.
- Starting Salary$26,000Job openings1,002,317Top Locations:Job Description:Delivery truck drivers and driver/sales workers pick up, transport, and drop off packages and small shipments within a local region or urban area. They drive trucks with a gross vehicle weight (GVW)—the combined weight of the vehicle, passengers, and cargo—of 26,000 pounds or less. Most of the time, delivery truck drivers transport merchandise from a distribution center to businesses and households.
- Starting Salary$26,000Job openings6,059Top Locations:Birmingham, AL; Phoenix, AZ; Saint Augustine, FL;Job Description:Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers design, manufacture, and sell jewelry. They also adjust, repair, and appraise gems and jewelry.
- Starting Salary$22,000Job openings1,772Top Locations:Job Description:Photographers use their technical expertise, creativity, and composition skills to produce and preserve images that tell a story or record an event.
- Starting Salary$22,000Job openings477,794Top Locations:Job Description:Retail sales workers include both those who sell retail merchandise, such as clothing, furniture, and automobiles, (called retail salespersons) and those who sell spare and replacement parts and equipment, especially car parts (called parts salespersons). Both types of workers help customers find the products they want and process customers’ payments.
