Of the 340 art professionals employed in Indiana, 150 work in Indianapolis. The number of art professionals in Indianapolis has shrunk by 52% from 2006 to 2010. Overall employment in Indianapolis has increased.

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In Indianapolis, salaries for art professionals have decreased. Indianapolis art professionals made $46,967 per year, on average, in 2010. Art professionals in Indianapolis made a yearly average salary of $48,360, four years earlier in 2006. The decline in the salary of art professionals in Indianapolis is slower than the salary trend for all careers in the city.

Art professionals make a median salary of $43,863 per year in Indianapolis. The difference in pay between the art professionals in the lowest pay bracket and those in the highest pay bracket is approximately 160%. Those in the lowest 10% of the pay bracket earn less than $27,857 per year, while those in the highest 10% of the pay bracket earn more than $72,290 per year.

On average art professionals in Indianapolis earn salaries that are higher than the salaries earned by other professionals in Indianapolis.

Many of Indianapolis' art professionals are graduates of one of the 6 accredited art schools in the city.

Indianapolis' art schools offer 18 art degree and certificate programs.

In 2010 approximately 258 students graduated from art courses.