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Floral Designers — Career Decision Dashboard

United States

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Median annual wage

$37,360

United States, 2025

Employment

40,590

United States, 2025

Typical education

Not recorded

Job Zone 2

Skills identified

35

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Career overview

Design, cut, and arrange live, dried, or artificial flowers and foliage.

O*NET code
27-1023.00
Job zone
2
Experience required
Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years

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.

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Salary analysis — United States

$28,600
10th
$32,810
25th
$37,360
Median
$45,700
75th
$51,000
90th

10th percentile

$28,600

25th percentile

$32,810

75th percentile

$45,700

90th percentile

$51,000

Most important skills

  • Active Listening3.9
  • Speaking3.6
  • Service Orientation3.3
  • Critical Thinking3.1
  • Time Management3.1
  • Social Perceptiveness3.1
  • Monitoring3.0
  • Judgment and Decision Making3.0
  • Active Learning2.9
  • Reading Comprehension2.9
  • Operations Analysis2.8
  • Coordination2.8

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Skills listed are those O*NET rates at importance 3.0 or above for this occupation. Set your own level on the same 0–7 O*NET scale.

Skill coverage

0%

0 of 8 identified skills

Matched

0

Missing

8

Your selected skills cover approximately 0% of the skills identified for this occupation in O*NET. This is a coverage measure of listed skills only — it is not a qualification, hiring or interview outcome.

Skills to develop

SkillImportanceRequired levelYour levelGap
Active Listening3.93.3Not selected3.3
Speaking3.63.0Not selected3.0
Service Orientation3.33.0Not selected3.0
Critical Thinking3.13.1Not selected3.1
Time Management3.12.9Not selected2.9
Social Perceptiveness3.12.9Not selected2.9
Monitoring3.02.9Not selected2.9
Judgment and Decision Making3.02.8Not selected2.8

Ordered by required level gap multiplied by O*NET importance. No prediction or recommendation is implied.

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How salary varies by location

LocationMedianEmploymentYear
Kahului, HI$52,570602025
Salinas, CA$49,220402025
Oxnard, CA$48,740802025
Santa Rosa, CA$48,410602025
Anchorage, AK$48,310402025
Los Angeles, CA$48,2001,3302025
AK$48,130802025
Sacramento, CA$47,9102202025
Riverside, CA$47,5604002025
Boston, MA$47,2206702025
Denver, CO$47,1403602025
San Jose, CA$47,0402802025
CA$47,0404,0802025
Seattle, WA$46,8704702025
San Francisco, CA$46,5205802025
MA$46,4608702025
Bend, OR$46,450402025
Portland, OR$46,4204202025
HI$46,1703802025
Boulder, CO$46,030702025
All locations with published data

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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0.

Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, 2025 (May 2025 release).

Figures are periodic published survey snapshots, not real-time market rates.