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Child, Family, and School Social Workers

Provide social services and assistance to improve the social and psychological functioning of children and their families and to maximize the family well-being and the academic functioning of children. May assist parents, arrange adoptions, and find foster homes for abandoned or abused children. In schools, they address such problems as teenage pregnancy, misbehavior, and truancy. May also advise teachers.

82 AI exposure
33 Human advantage
63 Market demand
60 AI leverage

Is Child, Family, and School Social Workers a safe career from AI?

Child, Family, and School Social Workers scores 82 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 33, 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 63 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 Child, Family, and School Social Workers pay

The median wage is $58,570 a year. The lower quarter earns under $47,480 and the upper quarter over $74,060. About 382,960 people do this work in the United States.

Where Child, Family, and School Social Workers can go next

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

Clinical and Counseling Psychologists 93% of the skills carry over $96k median
School Psychologists 95% of the skills carry over $87k median
Nurse Practitioners 87% of the skills carry over $129k median
Physician Assistants 88% of the skills carry over $133k 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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