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AI Automation Index
Will AI Replace Floral Designers?
Task-level automation exposure for Floral Designers: 15 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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40%
weighted task index
15 of 15 tasks scored
Median Salary
$37,360 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation
Employment Level
Medium
40,590 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
-5.6%
employment change
5,200 openings a year · BLS line item
Pay by state
BLS OEWS publishes 52 state estimates for this occupation. Each is its own survey estimate, not the national median adjusted for local prices.
$22,810 – $48,130
Highest medians
Alaska $48,130
California $47,040
Massachusetts $46,460
Hawaii $46,170
Colorado $45,380
Lowest medians
Puerto Rico $22,810
Mississippi $29,370
Oklahoma $29,660
West Virginia $29,860
Arkansas $29,910
State figures come from the 27-1023 row in the May 2025 state panel. States where the estimate was suppressed or too small to publish are absent.
What the score is made of
Each task is mapped to its work activities, scored for AI automation potential, and weighted by how important those activities are to the job. These are the components.
Automation potential 40%
Importance-weighted mean of the scored tasks. This is the headline index.
Physical work 40%
Share of weighted tasks in hands-on or machine-operating work activities.
Judgment & influence 46%
Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.
Routine administration 7%
Share in documenting, recording, and administrative activities.
Rewritten by O*NET 0%
Share of weighted tasks O*NET rewrote in a recent update. Reported, not folded into the score.
Consequence of error 0/100
Low
O*NET's own rating of how serious an uncorrectable mistake would be here — respondents, not us. Deliberately not in the index: the score measures what AI can do with the task content, and multiplying it by stakes would be our judgment dressed as data.
Constituent Task Mix
15 tasks for this occupation, weighted by work-activity importance. Shares below are of total task weight, not task count.
High exposure (≥ 60% of the task is automatable) 26%
4 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 41%
6 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 33%
5 tasks
How would you survive?
Move your week away from the high-exposure tasks and toward the ones that need judgment. The simulator recalculates the index as you shift the mix.
Simulate Upskilling →Constituent Tasks
#1720 · Core · 60% automatable
Plan arrangement according to client's requirements, using knowledge of design and properties of materials, or select appropriate standard design pattern.
text generation — Concepts generated; commercial curation human
Develop artistic or design concepts for decoration, exhibition, or commercial purposes.
#1725 · Core · 8% automatable
Trim material and arrange bouquets, wreaths, terrariums, and other items, using trimmers, shapers, wire, pins, floral tape, foam, and other materials.
physical manipulation — Crafting physical objects is manual artisan work
Construct distinctive physical objects for artistic, functional, or commercial purposes.
#1719 · Core · 48% automatable
Confer with clients regarding price and type of arrangement desired and the date, time, and place of delivery.
interpersonal — Needs elicitation requires human rapport and judgment
Confer with clients to determine needs.
#1726 · Core · 85% automatable
Perform office and retail service duties, such as keeping financial records, serving customers, answering telephones, selling giftware items, and receiving payment.
data analysis — Maintain files and records in structured systems
Maintain records, documents, or other files.
#1724 · Core · 38% automatable
Wrap and price completed arrangements.
decision support — Valuation aided; human owns final value judgment
Determine the value of goods or services. Arrange items for use or display.
#20751 · Core · 55% automatable
Deliver arrangements to customers, or oversee employees responsible for deliveries.
decision support — AI can arrange deliveries; exceptions need human handling
Arrange delivery of goods or services.
#1721 · Core · 5% automatable
Water plants, and cut, condition, and clean flowers and foliage for storage.
physical manipulation — Plant/animal care is physical work with living things
Irrigate lawns, trees, or plants. Care for plants or animals.
#1722 · Core · 50% automatable
Select flora and foliage for arrangements, working with numerous combinations to synthesize and develop new creations.
decision support — Prop selection depends on creative and physical context
Select materials or props.
#1723 · Core · 70% automatable
Order and purchase flowers and supplies from wholesalers and growers.
data analysis — Materials inventory records and forecasting automatable
Maintain inventories of materials, equipment, or products.
#1729 · Core · 8% automatable
Perform general cleaning duties in the store to ensure the shop is clean and tidy.
physical manipulation — Surface preparation is hands-on physical work
Clean facilities or work areas. Clean surfaces in preparation for work activities.
#1728 · Core · 6% automatable
Decorate, or supervise the decoration of, buildings, halls, churches, or other facilities for parties, weddings and other occasions.
physical manipulation — Arranging props is physical placement work
Arrange artwork, products, or props.
#1727 · Core · 55% automatable
Inform customers about the care, maintenance, and handling of various flowers and foliage, indoor plants, and other items.
text generation — Educational content drafted; public delivery is human
Provide educational information to the public.
#1730 · Core · 10% automatable
Unpack stock as it comes into the shop.
physical manipulation — Physically moving and shelving stock items
Stock products or parts. Stock supplies or merchandise.
#1731 · Core · 60% automatable
Create and change in-store and window displays, designs, and looks to enhance a shop's image.
text generation — Concepts generated; commercial curation human
Develop artistic or design concepts for decoration, exhibition, or commercial purposes.
#1732 · Core · 42% automatable
Conduct classes or demonstrations, or train other workers.
interpersonal — Work-process coaching requires live human interaction
Train others on work processes.
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How this was scored
- 1. Tasks. O*NET task statements for this occupation, from a release whose newest record is dated 08/2026.
- 2. Work activities. Each task maps to 1–5 Detailed Work Activities; each activity belongs to one of 41 Generalized Work Activities that O*NET rates for importance (1–5) in this occupation.
- 3. Automation potential. Every work activity carries one score for how far current AI can perform it end-to-end. Tasks inherit the mean of their activities.
- 4. Weighting. Task weight = 0.35 + 0.65 × (importance − 1)/4, scaled by how often the task is performed and by 0.7 for Supplemental tasks. Importance is the task's own O*NET rating where it exists (18,369 of 18,838 tasks); the rest inherit their work activities' importance. The index is the weighted mean.
Check: across the 910 occupations where O*NET also rates how far machine speed sets the pace, this index moves opposite to it (Spearman ρ = -0.49). The more a job is paced by equipment, the less of its task content AI can address — the relationship you would expect if the scoring is working.
Sources · O*NET 31.0 (task records to 08/2026) · BLS OEWS May 2025 · BLS projections 2025-2035 · rubric v2.1 · tasks for O*NET, not a forecast
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