Career Explorer Arts, media and sport
Grows with AI
Entertainers and performers, sports and related workers, all other
All entertainers and performers, sports and related workers not listed separately.
In the middle of the pack: more resilient than 58% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is high (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it high), and US jobs are projected to change by +4.7% by 2035, faster than average. The work leans on creative vision.
AI can help with many of the tasks, and demand is still growing. Being fluent with AI is the edge here.
- Median pay (2025)
- Not published
- Job growth to 2035
- +4.7%
- Openings a year
- 4,500
- People doing it (2025)
- 43,700
- Usual route in
- No formal credential, then short on-the-job training
Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook
- Merchandise displayers and window trimmersHuman edge, steady, Index 72, +2.7%
- ChoreographersHuman edge, steady, Index 84, +3.1%
- Costume attendantsHuman edge, growing, Index 90, +5.9%
- Animal trainersHuman edge, growing, Index 94, +4.2%
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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.