Archie Bagnall
Aug 9, 2017 · 1 min read

Thanks for your comment Sacha.

The design jobs captured in the census were across 10 sectors (I break down the representation in Figure 2 of this Medium piece: https://medium.com/aiga-orange-county/aiga-design-census-2016-the-puzzle-of-pay-ac09a634933e), with ‘In-House (Brand/Company)’ and ‘Agency (11+ Employees)’ being the most subscribed.

The census.gov statistic I reference includes all full-time jobs within the U.S., regardless of industry. Page 10 -11 of this PDF is their full analysis: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2016/demo/p60-256.pdf

In digging deeper, the next step would be to break these sectors apart by gender, however with this year-one data the sample sizes would start to become too small to pull accurate conclusions from (but perhaps offer suggestions of future trends when we have 3–5 years of data to work with).

AIGA have open sourced all of the raw data, and all of my working files are available here: https://github.com/ABagnall/DesignCensus2016

Thanks again.

    Archie Bagnall

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    Sr. Experience Designer ML/AI at Adobe. President Emeritus, AIGA Orange County