General Music Performance
Information on the businesses and industries that employ Visual & Performing Arts graduates and on wages and locations for those in the field.
The average salary for Visual & Performing Arts majors is $76,381 and the most common occupations are N/A.
The industry that employs the most Visual & Performing Arts majors is Elementary & secondary schools, though the highest paying industry, by average wage, is Internet publishing, broadcasting & web search portals.
The average salary for Visual & Performing Arts majors is $76,381 and the most common occupations are N/A.
This chart shows the average annual salaries of the most common occupations for Visual & Performing Arts majors.
The most common occupations for Visual & Performing Arts majors, by number of employees, are N/A.
Compared to other majors, there are an unusually high number of Visual & Performing Arts majors working as N/A.
The highest paid occupations by median income for Visual & Performing Arts majors are N/A.
The number of Visual & Performing Arts graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 3.34%, from 2.36M in 2023 to 2.44M in 2024.
The largest single share of Visual & Performing Arts graduates go on to work as N/A (NaNM%). This chart shows the various jobs filled by those with a major in Visual & Performing Arts by share of the total number of graduates.
The most common industries that employ Visual & Performing Arts majors, by number of employees, are Elementary & secondary schools, Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges, and Computer Systems Design.
The highest paying industries of Visual & Performing Arts majors, by average wage, are Internet publishing, broadcasting & web search portals, Petroleum refining, and Software publishers.
The number of Visual & Performing Arts graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 3.34%, from 2.36M in 2023 to 2.44M in 2024.
The industry which employs the most Visual & Performing Arts graduates by share is Elementary & secondary schools, followed by Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges. This visualization shows the industries that hire those who major in Visual & Performing Arts.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States where there are a relatively high population of Visual & Performing Arts majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Visual & Performing Arts majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
Demographic information for those who earn a degree in Visual & Performing Arts in the United States.
The average age of a person in the workforce with a degree in Visual & Performing Arts is 41.4.
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This chart shows distribution of ages for employees with a degree in Visual & Performing Arts. The most common ages of employees with this major are N/A and N/A years old, which represent N/A% and N/A% of the population, respectively.
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the General Music Performance field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. General Music Performance majors need many skills, but most especially Speaking. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that General Music Performance majors need more than the average amount of N/A.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for General Music Performance majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of N/A is very distinctive for majors, but the Speaking, Active Listening, and Coordination are the three most important skills for people in the field.