Floral Designers
Design, cut, and arrange live, dried, or artificial flowers and foliage.
40,590 people do this job in the US. $37,360 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 21%
- 8%
- 71%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 1%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 19%. Today's estimate: 20%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 15 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trim material and arrange bouquets, wreaths, terrariums, and other items, using trimmers, shapers, wire, pins, floral tape, foam, and other materials.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 19% | 38 min17 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Select flora and foliage for arrangements, working with numerous combinations to synthesize and develop new creations.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 19% | 50 min17 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Plan arrangement according to client's requirements, using knowledge of design and properties of materials, or select appropriate standard design pattern.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 18% | 38 min13 min to 1.7 h | 95%Half by now | |
| Confer with clients regarding price and type of arrangement desired and the date, time, and place of delivery.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 8% | 17 min8 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Perform office and retail service duties, such as keeping financial records, serving customers, answering telephones, selling giftware items, and receiving payment.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 8% | 25 min8 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Deliver arrangements to customers, or oversee employees responsible for deliveries.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 8% | 29 min13 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Perform general cleaning duties in the store to ensure the shop is clean and tidy.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Decorate, or supervise the decoration of, buildings, halls, churches, or other facilities for parties, weddings and other occasions.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 3% | 2.5 h50 min to 6.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Wrap and price completed arrangements.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 3% | 8 min4 min to 17 min | Stays with people | |
| Water plants, and cut, condition, and clean flowers and foliage for storage.Done daily by most who do it. | 3% | 38 min13 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Conduct classes or demonstrations, or train other workers.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 3% | 1.3 h38 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Unpack stock as it comes into the shop.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 2% | 25 min13 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
Where this job works
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