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As with most professions, salaries for fashion designers depend on the person’s experience, reputation, and education and the employer’s location, and size. Starting salaries tend to be quite low until employees prove themselves in the industry.
Job growth is expected to be slow and competition keen over the next few years. The best job opportunities will be in mass-market manufacturing. Few jobs will be available in high-end custom design.
In 2008, the median annual wage for fashion designers was $61,160, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The motion picture and video industries paid the highest salaries, with a mean annual wage of nearly $90,000.
New York and California employed the most fashion designers by far. (In 2008, 7,550 fashion designers were employed in New York and 3,900 in California. The next highest state, Massachusetts, had 420 fashion designers.) Fashion designers in New York, the state with the highest salaries, typically earned $5,000 a year more than designers in California.
One-quarter of fashion designers are self-employed. While self-employed designers usually earn less and enjoy less stability than salaried designers, the top designers do extremely well.
Employers prefer to hire entry-level designers with at least a two- or four-year design degree. Candidates must show portfolios of their work to be considered.
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