A Fine & Studio Arts graduate, 5 years in
Meet Lena.
What a Fine & Studio Arts degree typically turns into —
a synthetic person built entirely from U.S. government medians.
Meet Lena — she finished a degree in
Fine & Studio Arts and is now about 5 years into work.
Today she's most likely a Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary, earning
around $73,000 a year. That's up from roughly
$63,200 when she started, hiring is roughly flat.
She walked out with about $23,620 in student debt — roughly $269/mo for ten years.
On the AI front, AI barely touches her work so far. Archetype: The Hybrid Zone.
Lena isn't a real person. She's the statistical center of everyone who took this
path — built from BLS pay, Dept. of Education debt, and O*NET/AI task data. She describes the typical road,
not your destiny. Your own number can land anywhere along the curves below.
The pay she's really looking at
Not one number — where people in this role actually land, bottom 10% to top 10%. Her likely spot is marked.
Will AI come for Lena's job?
Right = how much AI is used in her role today. Up = how much it could automate in theory. Each faint dot is another occupation.
See another graduate
How Lena is built. We take the most representative career for
Fine & Studio Arts graduates, then pull real median pay by experience level (BLS OEWS / DOL filings),
typical student debt for the major (Dept. of Education College Scorecard), AI task exposure
(O*NET + automation potential), and skill-overlap escape routes. This is the joined,
forward-looking profile built from real medians — it needs the real distributions and the skill
graph. All figures are group medians and trends, never an individual prediction.
