Floral Designers Career, Salary and Skills
Floral Designers have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $37,360 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 40,590. Wage data is published for 247 locations.
Occupation description
Design, cut, and arrange live, dried, or artificial flowers and foliage.
O*NET code
27-1023.00
Job zone
2
Typical education
Not recorded
Experience
Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years
National salary and employment
Median annual
$37,360
Hourly median
$17.96
Employment
40,590
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
$28,600
10th
$32,810
25th
$37,360
Median
$45,700
75th
$51,000
90th
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Active Listening | 3.88 | 3.25 |
| Speaking | 3.62 | 3.00 |
| Service Orientation | 3.25 | 3.00 |
| Social Perceptiveness | 3.12 | 2.88 |
| Time Management | 3.12 | 2.88 |
| Critical Thinking | 3.12 | 3.12 |
| Monitoring | 3.00 | 2.88 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 3.00 | 2.75 |
| Reading Comprehension | 2.88 | 2.88 |
| Active Learning | 2.88 | 2.88 |
Typical tasks
- Deliver arrangements to customers, or oversee employees responsible for deliveries.
- Plan arrangement according to client's requirements, using knowledge of design and properties of materials, or select appropriate standard design pattern.
- Trim material and arrange bouquets, wreaths, terrariums, and other items, using trimmers, shapers, wire, pins, floral tape, foam, and other materials.
- Confer with clients regarding price and type of arrangement desired and the date, time, and place of delivery.
- Perform office and retail service duties, such as keeping financial records, serving customers, answering telephones, selling giftware items, and receiving payment.
- Wrap and price completed arrangements.
- Water plants, and cut, condition, and clean flowers and foliage for storage.
- Select flora and foliage for arrangements, working with numerous combinations to synthesize and develop new creations.
Technology
- Inventory tracking software
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Word
- Supply ordering software
- Timekeeping software
- Transaction accounting software
- Web browser software
Floral Designers salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Floral Designers Salary in CAMedian $47,040 · Employment 4,080
- Floral Designers Salary in TXMedian $35,080 · Employment 3,100
- Floral Designers Salary in FLMedian $36,770 · Employment 2,600
- Floral Designers Salary in NYMedian $45,260 · Employment 2,330
- Floral Designers Salary in New York, NYMedian $45,760 · Employment 2,310
- Floral Designers Salary in PAMedian $35,920 · Employment 1,840
- Floral Designers Salary in ILMedian $35,880 · Employment 1,760
- Floral Designers Salary in MIMedian $35,890 · Employment 1,640
- Floral Designers Salary in OHMedian $35,790 · Employment 1,520
- Floral Designers Salary in Los Angeles, CAMedian $48,200 · Employment 1,330
- Floral Designers Salary in Chicago, ILMedian $36,200 · Employment 1,230
- Floral Designers Salary in MOMedian $34,210 · Employment 1,160
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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2025 (bls.gov/oes). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.