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Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses pertaining to the chemical and physical properties and compositional changes of substances. Work may include providing instruction in the methods of qualitative and quantitative chemical analysis. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching, and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

95 AI exposure
25 Human advantage
54 Market demand
64 AI leverage

Is Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary a safe career from AI?

Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary scores 95 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 25, 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 54 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 Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary pay

The median wage is $86,220 a year. The lower quarter earns under $64,980 and the upper quarter over $125,920. About 20,390 people do this work in the United States.

Where Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary 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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