Interior Designers
Plan, design, and furnish the internal space of rooms or buildings. Design interior environments or create physical layouts that are practical, aesthetic, and conducive to the intended purposes. May specialize in a particular field, style, or phase of interior design.
71,500 people do this job in the US. $67,190 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
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- 7%
- 1%
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, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 7%. Today's estimate: 13%.
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 . 16 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Use computer-aided drafting (CAD) and related software to produce construction documents.Done daily by most who do it. | 17% | 1.3 work days3.3 h to 3.1 work days | 3%Half by Oct 2027 | |
| Select or design, and purchase furnishings, art work, and accessories.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 15% | 1 work day2.5 h to 3.1 work days | 5%Half by Oct 2027 | |
| Formulate environmental plan to be practical, esthetic, and conducive to intended purposes, such as raising productivity or selling merchandise.Done daily by most who do it. | 11% | 1.3 work days3.3 h to 4.2 work days | 4%Half by Dec 2027 | |
| Design plans to be safe and to be compliant with the American Disabilities Act (ADA).Done daily by most who do it. | 11% | 5 h2.5 h to 2.1 work days | 18%Half by Mar 2027 | |
| Design spaces to be environmentally friendly, using sustainable, recycled materials when feasible.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 10% | 1 work day2.5 h to 3.1 work days | 5%Half by Oct 2027 | |
| Coordinate with other professionals, such as contractors, architects, engineers, and plumbers, to ensure job success.Done daily by most who do it. | 7% | 2.5 h50 min to 1 work day | 40%Half by Dec 2026 | |
| Render design ideas in form of paste-ups or drawings.Done daily by most who do it. | 7% | 5 h1.7 h to 1.7 work days | 17%Half by Apr 2027 | |
| Advise client on interior design factors, such as space planning, layout and use of furnishings or equipment, and color coordination.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 2.1 h50 min to 5 h | Stays with people | |
| Estimate material requirements and costs, and present design to client for approval.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 4% | 5 h1.7 h to 1.7 work days | 17%Half by Apr 2027 | |
| Review and detail shop drawings for construction plans.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 3% | 3.3 h50 min to 1 work day | 28%Half by Feb 2027 | |
| Research health and safety code requirements to inform design.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 3% | 2.5 h50 min to 6.7 h | 46%Half by Oct 2026 | |
| Confer with client to determine factors affecting planning of interior environments, such as budget, architectural preferences, purpose, and function.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 2% | 1.7 h50 min to 3.3 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.
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From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
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