Jobs / Design, media, and writing / 27-1024.00
Graphic Designers
Design or create graphics to meet specific commercial or promotional needs, such as packaging, displays, or logos. May use a variety of mediums to achieve artistic or decorative effects.
- US jobs
- 197,830
- Median wage
- $62,960 a year
- Job family
- Design, media, and writing
Can agents do the work of graphic designers?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Design, media, and writing:
- Task levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. OSWorld-Verified includes tasks in image, slide, and document apps, and the best agent passes 90.2% of all its computer tasks. No task-level benchmark in our collection scores the quality of design or writing work.
- Project levelNot yetOn the Remote Labor Index, which includes graphic design, video, 3D, audio, and web projects from freelance platforms, the best agent completed 15.8% of projects to a standard a client would accept. GDPval deliverables score higher (84.9% wins or ties against professionals, reported by OpenAI), but those tasks are one-shot and fully specified.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in design, media, and writing, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
- OSWorld-Verifiedby HKU, Salesforce AI Research, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Waterloo90.2%Intelligence-Indeed Agent · 25 Jul 2026Saturated
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Key information into computer equipment to create layouts for client or supervisor.
- Review final layouts and suggest improvements, as needed.
- Determine size and arrangement of illustrative material and copy, and select style and size of type.
- Develop graphics and layouts for product illustrations, company logos, and Web sites.
- Create designs, concepts, and sample layouts, based on knowledge of layout principles and esthetic design concepts.
- Use computer software to generate new images.
- Prepare digital files for printing.
- Confer with clients to discuss and determine layout design.
- Research the target audience of projects.
- Draw and print charts, graphs, illustrations, and other artwork, using computer.
- Mark up, paste, and assemble final layouts to prepare layouts for printer.
- Study illustrations and photographs to plan presentation of materials, products, or services.
Other job titles for this occupation (37)
Artist · Brand Designer · Designer · Graphic Artist · Graphic Design Coordinator · Graphic Designer · Online Producer · Production Artist · Publications Designer · Technical Illustrator · Ad Designer (Advertising Designer) · Ad Layout Worker (Advertising Layout Worker) · Apparel Graphic Designer · Catalogue Illustrator · Commercial Artist · Concept Artist · Creative Designer · Design Consultant · Digital Artist · Forms Designer · Graphic Art Designer · Graphics Coordinator · Graphics Specialist · Interface Designer · Label Maker · Layout Artist · Marketing Graphic Designer · Multimedia Designer · Multimedia Developer · Multimedia Specialist · Presentation Designer · Presentation Specialist · Production Designer · Production Graphic Designer · Studio Designer · Visual Designer · Visual Graphic Designer