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Fashion Designers
Design clothing and accessories. Create original designs or adapt fashion trends.
What a fashion designer does
Become a fashion designer
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good fashion designer
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Talking to others.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
- Changing what is done based on other people's actions.
- Understanding people's reactions.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Typical hourly rate is $49 per hour with a typical salary of $92,300 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $38 and $60 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $32,900 and $101,400 per year.
- 62% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Part-time
- The typical hourly rate for part-time workers is $53 per hour with a typical salary of $27,400 per year.
Fashion Designer job outlook
- There are 238 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 193 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.
Multiple Jobs
- 13% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.