What is the average salary for Art Directors?

The average salary for Art Directors is $161K per year, weighted across all cities with data and based on 12 public records.

Which cities pay Art Directors the most?

The highest-paying cities for Art Directors include New York, NY.

What skills do Art Directors need?

Key skills for Art Directors include Domain Expertise, Problem Solving, Communication, Collaboration, Analytical Thinking.

Art Directors

Salary benchmarks based on 12 public records across 1 city.

Limited data: 12 points across cities

What do Art Directors do?

Formulate design concepts and presentation approaches for visual productions and media, such as print, broadcasting, video, and film. Direct workers engaged in artwork or layout design. Excludes “Set and Exhibit Designers” (27-1027).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 27-1011)

What our data shows for Art Directors

RoleHue publishes 12 salary records for Art Directors, across a single city. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $131,250 at the 25th percentile to $242,000 at the 75th, a spread of $110,750 around $161,150. Each of those three figures averages the city-level percentiles rather than ranking the pooled records, and weights each city by how many records it holds, so the cities we hold most data for pull them hardest. Measured against that $161,150 figure rather than in dollars (69% of it), that spread is wider than 95% of the roles we cover, so a single figure summarises this title worse than it does most others.

Every one of those records comes from New York, NY, so nothing on this page should be read as a national figure. It is one metro's picture, and it will change shape as other cities reach the ten-record threshold we require before publishing a number.