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Occupation

Animal Trainers

Train animals for riding, harness, security, performance, or obedience, or for assisting persons with disabilities. Accustom animals to human voice and contact, and condition animals to respond to commands. Train animals according to prescribed standards for show or competition. May train animals to carry pack loads or work as part of pack team.

42 AI exposure
46 Human advantage
56 Market demand
44 AI leverage

Is Animal Trainers a safe career from AI?

Animal Trainers scores 42 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 46. 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 56 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 Trainers pay

The median wage is $38,750 a year. The lower quarter earns under $32,870 and the upper quarter over $48,900. About 20,110 people do this work in the United States.

Where Animal Trainers can go next

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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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