Photographers in Arizona earn a median of $36,970 a year (17% below the U.S. median of $44,660), based on about 1,360 jobs. Pay for the same job differs a lot by employer, experience, industry and city within Arizona. These are wages of employees in the occupation, not a forecast for any individual.
Median annual pay
$36,970
17% below the U.S. median of $44,660
Average annual pay
$47,330
Mean wage
Pay range
$32,080–$84,130
10th to 90th percentile
Jobs in the state
1,360
Employees, May 2025
Median hourly pay
$17.77
Before taxes
The state's price level is 100.7 (U.S. average = 100), so a median of $36,970 here equals roughly $36,713 after adjusting for the state's price level.
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Fields of study linked to this career by the federal CIP-to-SOC crosswalk (U.S. Department of Education, NCES, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics; a classification crosswalk, and many workers entered by other routes): Journalism · Visual and Performing Arts, General · Design and Applied Arts · Film/Video and Photographic Arts
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025, state estimates (employees only; self-employed workers are not included); price-level adjustment uses the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parities (where 100 is the U.S. average; MajorPays' calculation). Wages are for an occupation in a state as a whole and vary widely by employer, experience, industry and place within the state. MajorPays selected and reorganized these figures; neither agency has approved or endorsed this presentation. See Data sources for each dataset's terms.