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Creative & Media · Updated Aug 2026

Floral Designers

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

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
61/100
High

How much of this occupation’s work can be materially affected by current AI systems.

Replacement Risk
51/100
Moderate

How likely exposure is to translate into reduced human demand.

Includes provisional estimates for AI adoption pressure and labour-market resilience. How this is measured

Evidence quality
Confidence81/100
Task coverage84%

Confidence reflects task coverage, mapping and capability-evidence quality, and how much of the score rests on provisional inputs.

Task-level evidence

What is driving the score?

Occupation scores are built from the task mix—not a single prediction about a job title.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
TaskImportanceAI impactExposure
Select flora and foliage for arrangements, working with numerous combinations to synthesize and develop new creations.High
72
Plan arrangement according to client's requirements, using knowledge of design and properties of materials, or select appropriate standard design pattern.High
72
Trim material and arrange bouquets, wreaths, terrariums, and other items, using trimmers, shapers, wire, pins, floral tape, foam, and other materials.High
74
Perform office and retail service duties, such as keeping financial records, serving customers, answering telephones, selling giftware items, and receiving payment.High
68
Confer with clients regarding price and type of arrangement desired and the date, time, and place of delivery.High
61
Order and purchase flowers and supplies from wholesalers and growers.High
74
Deliver arrangements to customers, or oversee employees responsible for deliveries.High
62
Inform customers about the care, maintenance, and handling of various flowers and foliage, indoor plants, and other items.Medium
69
Create and change in-store and window displays, designs, and looks to enhance a shop's image.Medium
72
Water plants, and cut, condition, and clean flowers and foliage for storage.High
23
Decorate, or supervise the decoration of, buildings, halls, churches, or other facilities for parties, weddings and other occasions.Medium
72
Perform general cleaning duties in the store to ensure the shop is clean and tidy.Medium
19
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

Routine, digitized, and highly repeatable tasks face the greatest pressure.

  1. Trim material and arrange bouquets, wreaths, terrariums, and other items, using trimmers, shapers, wire, pins, floral tape, foam, and other materials.74
  2. Order and purchase flowers and supplies from wholesalers and growers.74
  3. Select flora and foliage for arrangements, working with numerous combinations to synthesize and develop new creations.72
  4. Plan arrangement according to client's requirements, using knowledge of design and properties of materials, or select appropriate standard design pattern.72
Hardest to automate

Where people still matter

These tasks score lowest on automation feasibility—physical presence, judgement, accountability and real-world variability all resist end-to-end automation.

  1. Perform general cleaning duties in the store to ensure the shop is clean and tidy.01
  2. Water plants, and cut, condition, and clean flowers and foliage for storage.02
  3. Select flora and foliage for arrangements, working with numerous combinations to synthesize and develop new creations.03
  4. Trim material and arrange bouquets, wreaths, terrariums, and other items, using trimmers, shapers, wire, pins, floral tape, foam, and other materials.04
  5. Order and purchase flowers and supplies from wholesalers and growers.05
Where else this work leads

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Beyond AI capability

Adoption and labour-market outlook

Structural factors are kept separate from raw capability so you can see what actually resists automation. Adoption pressure and labour-market resilience are still provisional models—25% of this occupation’s replacement-risk weight rests on them.

Human dependency65
Physical dependency55
Adoption pressure37
Labour-market resilience62
Methodology & sources

O*NET 30.3 occupational data interpreted through the JobsVsAI capability, automation and structural-constraint models.

Confidence81/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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