Work Environment Fashion designers work at home, or in an office, and work full-time, which is forty hours a week. The uniform for this career is business or professional dress. This job requires both individual and group work, but mostly individual. According to Ohiomeansjobs, these career has activities such as sketching detailed drawings of apparel or accessories, attend fashion shows, keep up with the latest trends, and design costume clothing for individuals, theatres, and films. …show more content…
Other careers like this, according to Careeronestop, are art directors, commercial and industrial designers, fabric makers, floral designers, interior designers, and set designers.
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Careeronestop states that some skills needed for this job are active listening, critical thinking, active learning, coordination, judgment and decision making, and speaking. Abilities needed for this career include oral expression and comprehension, originality, deductive reasoning, fluency of ideas, and written comprehension. Knowledge needed for this profession is design, English language, manufacture and distribution of products, administration and management, and productive and processing.
Salary and Outlook In the United States, the median salary of the job is $64,030, while in Ohio, the medium salary is $67,030. The top salary for this profession in the United States is 129,380, however, in Ohio, the top salary is 106,660. $33,260 is the low salary for a fashion designer in the United States, while in Ohio, the low salary is $37,010. The growth in the job outlook for Ohio is projected to be twenty openings, while there are currently 520 fashion