From CNN.com, April 9, 2008:
Fashion designers
What they do: Fashion designers design and create new clothes and other fashion accessories to be sold to the public in retail stores. Depending on whether they work for their own label or for someone else’s, they might set new trends or follow existing ones.
Surprising salary: $69,270. Aspiring fashion designers are warned that few people can be the next Marc Jacobs, with runway shows at Fashion Week, actresses wearing their dresses at awards shows and millions in the bank — but the less famous fashion designers, which include those working for retail chains, are earning more than you probably thought.
*Mean annual salary information based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
