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Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors

Teach or instruct out-of-school youths and adults in basic education, literacy, or English as a Second Language classes, or in classes for earning a high school equivalency credential.

96 AI exposure
26 Human advantage
42 Market demand
65 AI leverage

Is Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors a safe career from AI?

Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors scores 96 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 26, 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 42 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 13.9% over ten years.

What Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors pay

The median wage is $59,950 a year. The lower quarter earns under $47,950 and the upper quarter over $76,580. About 36,260 people do this work in the United States.

Where Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors can go next

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

Speech-Language Pathologists 82% of the skills carry over $95k median
Compliance Managers 78% of the skills carry over $137k median
Orthoptists 79% of the skills carry over $114k 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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