Craft Artists

Moderate Risk
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AUTOMATION RISK
CALCULATED
54%
(Moderate Risk)
POLLING
40%
(Low Risk, Based on 184 votes)
Average: 47%
LABOR DEMAND
GROWTH
2.2%
by year 2033
WAGES
$36,600
or $17.59 per hour
Volume
5,830
as of 2023
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JOB SCORE
3.2/10
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- Chance of being automated
- Job growth
- Wages
- Volume of available positions

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Calculated automation risk

54% (Moderate Risk)

Moderate Risk (41-60%): Occupations with a moderate risk of automation usually involve routine tasks but still require some human judgment and interaction.

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Some quite important qualities of the job are difficult to automate:

  • Originality

  • Finger Dexterity

  • Fine Arts

  • Manual Dexterity

  • Social Perceptiveness

  • Persuasion

User poll

40% chance of full automation within the next two decades

Our visitors have voted there's a low chance this occupation will be automated. However, the automation risk level we have generated suggests a higher chance of automation: 54% chance of automation.

What do you think the risk of automation is?

What is the likelihood that Craft Artists will be replaced by robots or artificial intelligence within the next 20 years?

Sentiment

The following graph is shown where there are enough votes to produce meaningful data. It displays user poll results over time, providing a clear indication of sentiment trends.

Sentiment over time (yearly)

Growth

Slow growth relative to other professions.

The number of 'Craft Artists' job openings is expected to rise 2.2% by 2033

Total employment, and estimated job openings

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the period between 2023 and 2033
Updated projections are due 09-2025.

Wages

Very low paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Craft Artists' was 36.600 $, or 18 $ per hour

'Craft Artists' were paid 23.8% lower than the national median wage, which stood at 48.060 $

Wages over time

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Volume

Significantly lower range of job opportunities compared to other professions

As of 2023 there were 5,830 people employed as 'Craft Artists' within the United States.

This represents around < 0.001% of the employed workforce across the country

Put another way, around 1 in 26 thousand people are employed as 'Craft Artists'.

Job description

Create or reproduce handmade objects for sale and exhibition using a variety of techniques, such as welding, weaving, pottery, and needlecraft.

SOC Code: 27-1012.00

Comments (14)

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Bells
13 Nov 2025 06:35
For painters, hand illustrators, or anything on a canvas, that carries a moderate risk. Ai has the ability to copy that unfortunately.

However, for inventions and 3D crafted items (pottery, crochet, resin, jewelry, etc) there's a low to no risk. That's what I do, so I am safe. The biggest enemy are dropshippers.
… (Moderate)
24 May 2025 13:40
Robots are stealing art and artists jobs. However, they are not creative.
black leg sanji (No chance)
24 Mar 2025 20:24
human art will always persevere!
T (No chance)
11 Sep 2024 17:05
While robots might be able to build things with precision (more precision than humans ever could), they lack the human soul, mind & creativity that makes pieces of art what they are. I don’t think that robots can replace human artisans, at least not in the next two decades.
Dyan (Moderate)
11 Jul 2024 06:05
I still see hope, because art is for the living, and i, even if alone, will try and prove that...
Someguy (Highly likely)
01 Jul 2024 20:32
Theres so much ai art many of us cant even tell if an art piece is made by real people or not
Thunder
01 Jul 2024 20:19
The Ai getting over art is ridicoulus.They can even show feelings.
Chase
24 May 2024 13:19
No way, AI is already too far. It is NOT going to take away my personal hobbies
mary (Low)
15 Oct 2023 21:02
machines dont and will never have the art vision that humans can create
Kate (No chance)
19 Dec 2022 20:57
Crochet is the only manual activity that robots still can't replicate. Not even a simple plaid or a summer shirt has been made by AI to this day.
Rei (No chance)
20 Apr 2022 13:35
Humans like the unknowns, and their value of arts is about that. Because arts is about imagination, which most AI won't have, since they will be based on experience they are programmed with.
Patriciooo (Highly likely)
17 Feb 2022 02:51
The rise of text-to-image based AI like DALL-E makes it worrying how easy it is for a computer to generate good-looking images. Makes me believe artificial intelligence is only a few steps away from becoming truly creative.
Nina (No chance)
12 Nov 2019 07:41
because there is no way to replace human in craft and art
Matthew Watson (No chance)
04 Apr 2019 16:31
I honestly do believe craft artist are safe they have to create new ideas to make different pieces of art. Some parts could be automated but it would only make their jobs easier. Ultimately they are the ones creating art
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