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Animal Control Workers

Handle animals for the purpose of investigations of mistreatment, or control of abandoned, dangerous, or unattended animals.

49 AI exposure
58 Human advantage
55 Market demand
53 AI leverage

Is Animal Control Workers a safe career from AI?

Animal Control Workers scores 49 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is low. Most of what this job involves is not the kind of task current AI systems are good at, largely because it happens in a physical place rather than on a screen.

Its human advantage score is 58. There is a real physical and in-person component to this work, alongside a good deal that could be done from anywhere. Market demand scores 55 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment roughly flat over ten years.

What Animal Control Workers pay

The median wage is $45,830 a year. The lower quarter earns under $38,160 and the upper quarter over $57,110. About 11,790 people do this work in the United States.

Where Animal Control Workers can go next

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

Detectives and Criminal Investigators 89% of the skills carry over $94k median
Police Identification and Records Officers 93% of the skills carry over $94k median
Firefighters 82% of the skills carry over $60k median
Baggage Porters and Bellhops 83% of the skills carry over $36k 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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