Markets Occupations Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations — Employment

Occupation metric · SOC 27-0000 · Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, & Media · BLS OEWS · Annual · National

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Latest reading May 2025

2.05M −2.50%down YoY
Atlanta
38,260 May 2025

Employment · BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) · National · May 2021 – May 2025

Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations — Employment, National. 5 observations from May 2021 to May 2025.
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What's happening with Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Employment for Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations in the U.S. is 2,046,290 (May 2025), down 2.50% from a year earlier. Median annual pay is $62,750.

Source: BLS OEWS · May 2025

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Key Stats

Latest2,046,290 personsMay 2025
Prior Year2,098,6902024
Year Change−2.50%downYoY
3-Yr Change−0.83%downsince 2022
Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, & Media2,046,290May 2025
All Occupations155,495,730May 2025
Atlanta Reading38,260May 2025
Observations52021 – 2025
SOC Code27-0000
Occupation FamilyArts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, & Media27-0000

Other Measures for Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations National

Median Annual Pay $62,750 +4.34%up YoYMay 2025
Mean Annual Pay $79,790 +3.57%up YoYMay 2025
P10 Pay $34,700 +6.64%up YoYMay 2025
P25 Pay $44,720 +8.31%up YoYMay 2025
P75 Pay $94,530 +6.97%up YoYMay 2025
P90 Pay $134,900 +4.48%up YoYMay 2025

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All Occupations — Employment

155.5M
+0.85%up YoY

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  • Compensation the published pay distribution, 10th to 90th percentile
  • Demand employment and its change from a year earlier
  • Employment concentration jobs per 1,000 and the location quotient
  • Atlanta vs. national the same measures side by side where Atlanta publishes them
  • Hiring conditions market-wide openings, hires, quits and layoffs

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Performance Overview change over each horizon the series supports

Employment · 1 Year

−2.50%down

May 2025

  • Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, & Media −2.50%down
  • All occupations +0.85%up

Employment · 3 Year

−0.83%down

since 2022

Data & Methodology

Source BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)
Dataset bls.oews
Reference Period May 2025
Frequency Annual
Seasonal Adjustment Not stated
Geography National
Unit persons
Metric ID bls.oews.employment.soc_27_0000
Observations 5
Last Fetched moments ago
SOC Code 27-0000
Role Page Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

National is the default geography. Atlanta Beta covers msa:12060 only.

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