Design major belongs to a big category, and the employment prospects of each branch are different. Such as graphic design: you can find suitable jobs in newspapers, mass media, advertising companies and other enterprises; Visual communication design major: you can work in a network company or a company with a graphic designer position; Engineering design major: able to engage in practical production management related work; Clothing and clothing design major: can be engaged in clothing design positions in clothing production and sales enterprises.
There is no good data, according to the global customer opinion survey conducted by ASOS 20 12 in the UK. Designers rank second in popularity index among ten positions such as law, education, science and technology, only lower than government workers, and are considered as one of the coolest, freest and most promising industries, and education ranks third. Another data shows that there is an extreme shortage of senior design talents in various industries in China. The gap between ordinary employees is also very large. For example, there is a shortage of 400,000 talents in interior design and 300,000 talents in website design and animation design.
The era is developing from "Made in China" to "Created in China". Designers have also become the initiator of "innovation and creation" and a powerful promoter of social development and productivity release. The most intuitive reflection of consumption upgrading is the improvement of people's living consumption level, and the personalized demand for products is outstanding. As the creator of product upgrade, designers will surely become the leader of this wave! Designers, whether independent interior designers or designers working in companies, are very busy. They need to receive customers and negotiate, provide customers with design plans, sort out contracts, measure rooms on site, communicate daily, accompany customers to select materials, conduct various inspections with customers, follow up the decoration process and supervise the construction quality. Overtime is quite common in the design industry. Most designers work overtime on holidays, without subsidies and overtime pay, and overtime on weekends is also common. A small amount of overtime will be done on other holidays, and New Year's Day and Spring Festival are very rare. Overtime during the Golden Week rarely gets double overtime pay, that is, it rarely gets 300% salary for the first three days and 200% salary for the last four days.
On the whole, the salary of designers is about 6,543,800 yuan for many senior designers with good design ability, about 23,000 yuan for new interior designers, more than 300,000 yuan for some well-known senior designers, and a few practitioners may reach an annual salary of one million yuan. Interior designers who have just entered the industry, if they work in first-tier cities, their annual salary may be around 40 thousand, and those who are excellent will reach more than 60 thousand; If it is a second-and third-tier city, the annual income may be only about 30,000. Of course, there are also many special circumstances, such as high signing rate, more commissions, and a significant increase in income. For interior designers who have worked for more than three years, some will accumulate the ability to host projects and design independently. In first-tier cities, their wages may rise to about 654.38+10,000, while in second-tier cities, there will be obvious growth, and it is normal to reach an annual income of 50,000. Designers with more than eight years of experience will make certain achievements, such as having a certain customer base and accumulating a certain number of successful cases, which will significantly improve their professional ability. If you hone in first-tier cities for a long time, your annual income will generally reach more than 200,000. If it is a second-tier city, the annual income is more than 654.38+ 10,000. Generally speaking, interior designers generally don't take the pre-determined salary, but in the form of basic salary+commission+bonus. Among experienced interior designers, the commission often exceeds the basic salary. Generally speaking, the income of designers is relatively stable. Due to the change of the whole employment policy, most of them will participate in social security and pay housing provident fund, and a few will buy commercial insurance. According to the survey, a small number of formal decoration design companies will provide designers with paid annual leave and normal holidays, but holidays are very common. There is no strict age limit for practicing as an interior designer. According to the sample observation, most designers are concentrated in 25? Between the ages of 35, most of these employees are faced with ordinary home decoration projects, and the project budget is around100000. Of course, except for a few excellent designers. Designers after the age of 35 are more likely to become department managers, senior designers, design directors, or independently run design studios and decoration design companies. Now the famous interior designers in the industry are basically around 40 years old. From the source, there are designers who graduated from classes, such as architecture and civil engineering, arts and crafts, environmental art and so on. They have their own advantages in interior design. For example, designers who graduated from architecture and civil engineering have rich knowledge of spatial structure, materials, light and shadow, while designers who graduated from arts and crafts have more advantages in design techniques, colors, spatial levels, art, etc., while students majoring in environmental art know more about light and shadow, fashion and art. In addition to interior designers trained in professional courses, there are quite a few practitioners who have changed careers, such as former long-term workers, engineers and artists. In terms of gender, more men will choose this career. According to the survey, more than 80% of well-known interior designers in China are men. In terms of qualification certification, junior interior designers only need to have secondary school education to apply for the exam; The requirements of intermediate education are relatively high, either graduated from university 1 year, graduated from junior college for 5 years, or obtained the junior certificate of interior design for 3 years.