Roles Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, & Media

Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Occupation family · SOC 27-0000 · BLS OEWS · Annual · National

Employment · U.S. May 2025

2.05M −2.50%down YoY
Employment · ATL / U.S.
38,260 / 2,046,290
Median Annual Pay · ATL / U.S.
$64,540 / $62,750
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Employment · BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) · Atlanta May 2021 – May 2025 · U.S. May 2021 – May 2025

Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations — Employment. Atlanta: 5 observations, May 2021 – May 2025. U.S.: 5 observations, May 2021 – 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

Employment2,046,290May 2025
Employment Change−2.50%downYoY
Median Annual Pay$62,750May 2025
Median Annual Pay Change+4.34%upYoY
Mean Annual Pay$79,790May 2025
P10 Pay$34,700May 2025
P25 Pay$44,720May 2025
P75 Pay$94,530May 2025
P90 Pay$134,900May 2025
SOC Code27-0000
Occupation FamilyArts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, & Media27-0000

Pay Distribution National · May 2025

  1. P10 $34,700
  2. P25 $44,720
  3. Median $62,750
  4. P75 $94,530
  5. P90 $134,900

Annual wage percentiles as published (BLS OEWS). Only the five published points are drawn; nothing between them is estimated.

Job Economy Report the market for this role · National

Employment

2.05M
−2.50%down YoY

5 annual observations

Atlanta vs. U.S. matching OEWS measures

MeasureAtlantaU.S.Atlanta vs U.S.
Employment May 2025 38,260 −1.37%down 2,046,290 −2.50%down
Median Annual Pay May 2025 $64,540 +9.54%up $62,750 +4.34%up +2.9% vs U.S.
Mean Annual Pay May 2025 $80,200 −0.75%down $79,790 +3.57%up +0.5% vs U.S.
P25 Pay May 2025 $46,420 +20.5%up $44,720 +8.31%up +3.8% vs U.S.
P75 Pay May 2025 $94,650 +6.11%up $94,530 +6.97%up +0.1% vs U.S.

Atlanta is the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta metro area; no other area's figure is substituted. Badges are each geography's own published year change.

Hiring Context market-wide · National · June 2026

BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, all nonfarm industries, seasonally adjusted. JOLTS is published nationally, not by occupation or metro; no hiring figure is attributed to this role.

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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

Median Pay · 1 Year

+4.34%up

May 2025

  • Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, & Media +4.34%up
  • All occupations +2.99%up

Median Pay · 3 Year

+8.13%up

since 2022

Data & Methodology

Source BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)
Dataset bls.oews
Program Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (annual, May reference)
Reference Period May 2025
Geography National
SOC Code 27-0000
Occupation Family Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations (27-0000)
Published Measures 7 of 9
Employment Metric ID bls.oews.employment.soc_27_0000
Employment Observations 5
Hiring Context Market-wide BLS JOLTS (national); no occupation-level hiring series is published
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National is the default geography. Atlanta Beta covers the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta metro area only.

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