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Creative & Media

Floral Designers

Design, cut, and arrange live, dried, or artificial flowers and foliage.

Sector: Creative & Media
Preparation: Zone 2 — some preparation needed
O*NET code: 27-1023.00

What you'll actually do

The activities O*NET rates highest for this occupation, most important first. Numbers are out of 100.

Getting Information

a major part of the work — rated 76/100 for importance.
Thinking Creatively

a major part of the work — rated 72/100 for importance.
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work

a regular part of the work — rated 69/100 for importance.
Performing for or Working Directly with the Public

a regular part of the work — rated 67/100 for importance.
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events

a regular part of the work — rated 64/100 for importance.
Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings

a regular part of the work — rated 63/100 for importance.

Design, cut, and arrange live, dried, or artificial flowers and foliage.

What it takes

Two numbers per line: the level the work expects, and how important it is to doing the job well. Both are O*NET ratings, already on a 0–100 scale.

Skills

Active Listening

Needed at a basic working level (45/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
Speaking

Needed at a solid working level (48/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.
Service Orientation

Needed at a basic working level (43/100), and rated 60/100 for importance.
Social Perceptiveness

Needed at a basic working level (43/100), and rated 60/100 for importance.
Critical Thinking

Needed at a solid working level (48/100), and rated 56/100 for importance.

Knowledge

Customer and Personal Service

Needed at a solid working level (51/100), and rated 77/100 for importance.
Production and Processing

Needed at a solid working level (49/100), and rated 64/100 for importance.
Sales and Marketing

Needed at a basic working level (45/100), and rated 62/100 for importance.
Design

Needed at a basic working level (41/100), and rated 60/100 for importance.

Abilities

Oral Expression

Needed at a solid working level (55/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
Oral Comprehension

Needed at a solid working level (54/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
Visualization

Needed at a solid working level (50/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.
Visual Color Discrimination

Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 66/100 for importance.

How people get in

O*NET places this occupation in Zone 2 — some preparation needed. That is a statement about what employers typically require, not a rule about you.

Education

A high-school diploma is the usual starting point.

Experience

Some prior work experience helps but is rarely required.

Training

Expect a few months to a year of on-the-job training.

What it pays

These are typical creative compensation bands by employer tier — sector-level figures, not a measured salary for Floral Designers specifically. Treat them as the shape of the market, then check a real posting for the number.

WPP · Pentagram · Google

$100k – $180k

Mid-size Agencies

$70k – $110k

Freelance & Boutique

$45k – $80k

How the work tends to run

Each line below is read off a single O*NET activity rating for this occupation — named, so you can disagree with it.

You are in front of the public, so the job is partly performance.From “Performing for or Working Directly with the Public”

How FlightWay scores your fit against this

No black box. Here is the whole method, factor by factor.

1. You answer a short quiz: Your answers build a profile across the same 161 O*NET dimensions this page is describing — skills, knowledge, abilities and work activities. Same axes, so the comparison is like-for-like.
2. We correlate the two profiles: Fit is a mean-centered cosine — a correlation between the SHAPE of your profile and the shape of Floral Designers. Centering matters: raw similarity between any two occupations sits at 0.70–0.85 because all work shares a common profile, so without it every career would look like a match.
3. The number you see is personality fit only: "Would I want this work" and "am I ready for this work" are different questions, and averaging them answers neither. So readiness — what your résumé, coursework and projects prove — is scored separately and shown next to fit, never blended into it.
4. Every factor is visible: You can open any match and see which dimensions pushed it up and which pulled it down. If you disagree with the number, you can see exactly where it came from.

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