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Actuaries

Analyze statistical data, such as mortality, accident, sickness, disability, and retirement rates and construct probability tables to forecast risk and liability for payment of future benefits. May ascertain insurance rates required and cash reserves necessary to ensure payment of future benefits.

100 AI exposure
15 Human advantage
61 Market demand
62 AI leverage

Is Actuaries a safe career from AI?

Actuaries scores 100 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is high. A large share of this work is the kind current AI systems are measurably good at. That is not a prediction the job disappears, and the research does not support one. It means more of this role is likely to change than most.

Its human advantage score is 15, which is low. Most of this role can be done through a screen, and that is the half of the labor market AI has reached first. Market demand scores 61 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 9.2% over ten years.

What Actuaries pay

The median wage is $125,770 a year. The lower quarter earns under $90,970 and the upper quarter over $164,860. About 28,340 people do this work in the United States.

Where Actuaries can go next

Occupations that share most of what this job already requires, ranked by how much carries over.

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Chief Executives 81% of the skills carry over $206k median
Chief Sustainability Officers 81% of the skills carry over $206k median

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Where this comes from

Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.

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