Exactly 90 of Alabama's 2,330 visual communications professionals work in Tuscaloosa. The number of visual communications professionals in Tuscaloosa has grown by 13% from 2006 to 2010. As the number of visual communications professionals in Tuscaloosa has increased, overall employment in Tuscaloosa has decreased.

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In Tuscaloosa, salaries for visual communications professionals have increased. In 2010 an average salary of $36,810 per year was earned by visual communications professionals in Tuscaloosa. The average salary for visual communications professionals in Tuscaloosa was $32,930 per year, four years earlier in 2006. This growth is slower than the salary trend for all careers in Tuscaloosa.

Visual communications professionals in Tuscaloosa earn a median salary of $33,640 per year. The difference in pay between the visual communications professionals in the lowest pay bracket and those in the highest pay bracket is approximately 179%. Those in the lowest 10% of the pay bracket earn less than $21,120 per year, while those in the highest 10% of the pay bracket earn more than $58,960 per year.

On average visual communications professional salaries in Tuscaloosa are lower than salaries earned by their professional counterparts in related professions.

Many of Tuscaloosa's visual communications professionals are graduates of the only accredited visual communications school in the city.

Tuscaloosa's visual communications school offers one visual communications degree and certificate program.

In 2010 approximately 4 students completed visual communications courses.