Interior designers and decorators
AI can help with a few sub-tasks (emails, paperwork), but the core of the job doesn't change.
Exposure is not job loss: it shows how much of the work generative AI could do today. Whether that turns into transformation, productivity gains or cuts depends on employers, regulation — and on you.
0 = today’s generative AI cannot perform any of the job’s tasks, 100 = it could do all of them fully. The pale band is the spread across tasks.
Work out your own score ↓What can you do?
The AI analysis for this occupation is still being prepared — the background process covers a few occupations every day.
Task by task
The ILO scored every task of the occupation separately, as the average of two AI models (GPT-4o and Gemini). The pale band is the range between the two models' scores, the dot the ILO's final score (for a few tasks expert review placed it outside the band).
- Preparing sketches, diagrams, illustrations and plans to communicate design concepts49
- Detailing and documenting selected design for construction46
- Formulating design concepts for the interiors of buildings43
- Researching and analysing spatial, functional, efficiency, safety and aesthetic requirements42
- Coordinating the construction and the decoration of interiors34
- Designing and decorating show windows and other display areas to promote products and services.34
- Selecting, specifying and recommending functional and aesthetic materials, furniture and products for interiors34
- Determining the objectives and constraints of the design brief by consulting with clients and stakeholders33
- Negotiating design solutions with clients, management, suppliers and construction staff31
- Designing and painting stage scenery23
How much does it affect you?
Every job is different: mark which of these tasks you do and how much, and we'll compute your own, time-weighted score.
For each task: I don't do it · sometimes · most of my job.
- Preparing sketches, diagrams, illustrations and plans to communicate design concepts(49)
- Detailing and documenting selected design for construction(46)
- Formulating design concepts for the interiors of buildings(43)
- Researching and analysing spatial, functional, efficiency, safety and aesthetic requirements(42)
- Coordinating the construction and the decoration of interiors(34)
- Designing and decorating show windows and other display areas to promote products and services.(34)
- Selecting, specifying and recommending functional and aesthetic materials, furniture and products for interiors(34)
- Determining the objectives and constraints of the design brief by consulting with clients and stakeholders(33)
- Negotiating design solutions with clients, management, suppliers and construction staff(31)
- Designing and painting stage scenery(23)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 37.)
About 0% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Preparing sketches, diagrams, illustrations and plans to communicate design concepts
- • Detailing and documenting selected design for construction
- • Designing and painting stage scenery
- • Negotiating design solutions with clients, management, suppliers and construction staff
An estimate from the ILO task scores. Everything is computed in your browser — nothing is sent or stored.
How many people work in this occupational group?
Share of the Legal, social, cultural and related associate professionals group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Legal, social, cultural and related associate professionals |
|---|---|
| Netherlands | 3.8% · 378 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 3.6% · 1,235 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 3.5% · 1,039 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 3.3% · 84 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 2.9% · 139 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 2.6% · 9 thousand · 2025 |
| Luxembourg | 2.4% · 8 thousand · 2025 |
| Iceland | 2.3% · 5 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 2.3% · 65 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 2.2% · 99 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 2.2% · 115 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 2.1% · 98 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 1.9% · 14 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 1.9% · 55 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 1.8% · 93 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 1.8% · 392 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 1.7% · 287 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 1.6% · 50 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 1.5% · 23 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 1.5% · 79 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 1.4% · 584 thousand · 2025 |
| Cyprus | 1.3% · 6 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 1.3% · 11 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 1.2% · 296 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 1.2% · 53 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 1.2% · 61 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 1.1% · 11 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 0.9% · 15 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 0.9% · 22 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 0.8% · 22 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 0.6% · 45 thousand · 2025 |
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Technicians and associate professionals). Eurostat's earnings survey only publishes pay by occupation at 1 digit, so this is the job's broader group. Enterprises with 10+ employees, 2022.
By country, at purchasing power parity (PPS/month), so countries with different price levels can be compared.
- Switzerland5,280
- Luxembourg4,320
- Norway4,307
- Denmark4,301
- Ireland4,024
- Belgium3,903
- Iceland3,856
- Germany3,608
- Austria3,399
- Netherlands3,247
- EU273,226
- Italy3,127
- Sweden3,089
- Finland2,971
- France2,687
- Spain2,685
- Slovenia2,660
- Cyprus2,537
- Lithuania2,472
- Malta2,464
- Romania2,310
- Poland2,294
- Czechia2,275
- Estonia2,251
- Croatia2,127
- Latvia2,081
- Hungary2,054
- Greece2,050
- Portugal2,044
- Slovakia2,027
- Bulgaria1,738
Source: Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses22_21), every four years. The United Kingdom is not covered by the survey.
Outlook to 2035
Employment in the Legal, social, cultural and related associate professionals group according to Cedefop's 2026 forecast.
thousand · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · 2026–2035: projection
Replacement demand is the jobs left by people retiring or changing careers — even a shrinking occupation can have many openings.
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Sources: ILO WP140 (2025) · Eurostat lfsa_egai2d · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · WEF Future of Jobs 2025 · ESCO. The exposure score measures how much of an occupation's tasks generative AI could perform — not whether the job disappears. For information only, not career advice. How do we calculate this?