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What visual artists make
Median
$62,000
Lower end
$39,000
Upper end
$94,000
Job Bank's national median is $29.57 an hour, about $62,000 a year at 40 hours a week, with a low of $18.75 and a high of $45.09. That figure only counts people employed as artists, so it misses the very large number who sell some work and earn the rest of their living another way. Treat it as what the job pays when it is a full-time job, not as what the average artist takes home.