Also called: Commercial Interior Designer, Office Designer
Designs offices and corporate headquarters, planning how people work, meet, and move.
They interview employees about how they work, plan desks and meeting rooms, and choose furniture that holds up to heavy use. Projects range from one floor to whole campuses. Building codes and accessibility rules shape every decision.
Estimate based on interior designer wages at architecture firms.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in interior design; NCIDQ certification for advancement.
Ways in: 4-year college, Certification. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Interior Design, Architecture.
Growing about average (about 3% over 10 years). Hybrid work is changing office design.
Medium risk for 10 years. AI space-planning tools generate office layouts fast; studying how teams actually work and coordinating builds stay human.
Classes: Architecture or drafting CAD, AP Psychology, Business.
Official data: O*NET occupation 27-1025.
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