Media and Information: BLS Spotlight on Statistics

Occupational Employment Growth and Decline, 2010–2020

Numeric and percent change in projected employment for selected media-related occupations, 2010–2020
Occupation	Projected employment in 2020	Change, 2010-2020
Occupation	Projected employment in 2020	Percent change	Numeric change
Photographers	156,900	12.5	17,500
Writers and authors	155,400	6.5	9,500
Producers and directors	136,000	11.0	13,500
Editors	128,000	0.6	800
Multimedia artists and animators	72,000	8.3	5,500
Audio and video equipment technicians	69,400	13.4	8,200
Technical writers	58,000	17.2	8,500
Radio and television announcers	53,600	6.9	3,500
Reporters and correspondents	48,000	-7.5	-3,900
Broadcast technicians	40,000	9.0	3,300
Film and video editors	33,200	5.2	1,600
Camera operators, television, video, and motion picture	27,300	2.1	600