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What is The Salary of An Interior Designer?

Interior designing is an exciting field for people with creative and artistic designing skills. Beautifying homes without compromising with safety and functionality is the aim of interior designers. They meet the expectations of the customers by understanding their requirements and providing desired outputs. Their goal is to make any office place, home, or buildings eye-catching and attractive.

What is their job? 

The main job of an interior designer is to make the indoor spaces safe, functional, Comfortable and pretty looking. They must have a creative eye as they decide the colours, accessories, lighting and other decorative items that go with the overall aesthetics of a house, office or any other space. Interior designers are supposed to understand the clients requirements and make their interior spaces the way they desire. The key to a successful Interior designing Project is teamwork and good communication. The interior designers must be closely associated with their clients, architects, civil engineers, labourers and construction workers so that they can organise the interior pieces in the proper way. 

The interior designers provide a sketch of How the inner part of the space must look like so that the other construction crew will have an idea of the job. Majority of the interior designing jobs require good computer skills as most of the designs are made with the help of softwares. So an interior designer is required to have good computational skills. There are many specialisations within the field of interior designing, some are professionals who can only design homes while some specialise in designing hotels or specific areas of the house such as kitchens or living rooms et cetera. 

Most importantly, an interior designer must have an artistic eye and a knowledge of colours. They must possess good team work skills and should be able to determine what colour furniture goes with what colour wall paint or what artwork goes with what wallpaper.

Interior Designing Specialisations 

• Healthcare designers: these interior designers are specialised in remodelling or renovating or designing hospitals, clinics, offices in healthcare centres, etc. they focus on making the health care centres safe and pleasing to a patient’s eye.
• Corporate designers: they make the professional workspace more welcoming, attractive and safe for the employees. Many corporations do not compromise on the workplace designs as anaesthetic workplace will increase the working capacity of the employees. With The specific requirements provided by the companies about the specific colours, furnitures, and paints, The corporate designers provide the clients with attractive designs for their workplaces.
• Bath and kitchen designers’ goal is to enhance the functionality, beauty of interior kitchen spaces of houses. These designers have a great knowledge of plumbing, electrical fittings, kitchen storage space and other accessories. 
• Sustainable designers aim at making the indoors or buildings greener and environment friendly. They provide energy saving designs to households. They have an official certification in Leadership in energy and environmental design (LEED) from the US Green Building Council. 
• Universal designers make workplaces or residential spaces more efficient for use of people from all age groups. They make sure that the general public is comfortable and safer at these places.

Overall Work Environment 

Interior designing is a booming field and can be pursued in many ways. Some professionals choose to be freelancers and get paid at the completion of every assignment. There are other self-employed workers who have specific work hours, salary and they have the freedom to choose which work they would like to do. They carried the entire responsibility of their job and the success depends on their choices and capabilities. There are many interior designing companies That hire employees and meet the targets of their customers. Many construction firms also hire interior designers to design and beautify their buildings or residential complex or hospitals or hotels. 

As an interior designer, the salary might be less but if you want to follow your passion you will reach there someday where you will be worldwide known for your abilities. 

Eligibility for Being An Interior Designer 

The people who are interested to pursue their career in interior designing must meet the academic  criteria:

• Must have completed 10+2 in any field
• Should have at least 40 to 55% in interior designing course
• Must demonstrate good computational skills and other technical skills.

What is The Salary of An Interior Designer?

The salary of an interior designer differs from state to state and company to company. The below mentioned data will give you a generalised idea of how much salary does an interior designer get:

• An interior designer earns a total of ₹2,50,000 to ₹20,00,000 per annum
• Average salary of an interior designer per hour is Rs.50 to Rs 820
• The salary of an interior designer in metropolitan cities like Mumbai, Delhi can be around 20,000 to 1,00,00 per month based on his position in the company.
• The interior designers can be in junior, senior or assistant positions 
• Large corporations like LivSpace offers Rs.25,000 to 45,000 per month to its interior designer employees, shoppers stop interior designers get 55,000 to 75,000 per month, Asian paints provides 23,000 to 27,000 per month on an average to its interior designers
• Many other small and big corporations pay their interior designer employees somewhere around 15,000 to 80,000 per month

JD Institute of fashion technology offers diploma and postgraduate course in interior design which aims at providing theoretical and technological knowledge to students from across India. The study focuses on creative and artistic approach towards interior designing and helps the students in their future career endeavours. The course is for two years duration. The prospective applicants are required to call the counsellor to know more about the interior designing course fees at JD Institute of fashion technology