Occupation

Community Health Workers

Promote health within a community by assisting individuals to adopt healthy behaviors. Serve as an advocate for the health needs of individuals by assisting community residents in effectively communicating with healthcare providers or social service agencies. Act as liaison or advocate and implement programs that promote, maintain, and improve individual and overall community health. May deliver health-related preventive services such as blood pressure, glaucoma, and hearing screenings. May collect data to help identify community health needs.

64 AI exposure

31 Human advantage

66 Market demand

49 AI leverage

Is Community Health Workers a safe career from AI?

Community Health Workers scores 64 out of 100 for AI exposure, around the middle of the US labor market. Parts of this work overlap with what AI does well and parts do not.

Its human advantage score is 31, 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 66 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 12.7% over ten years.

What Community Health Workers pay

The median wage is $51,030 a year. The lower quarter earns under $44,370 and the upper quarter over $63,150. About 60,730 people do this work in the United States.

Where Community Health Workers can go next

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

Family Medicine Physicians 89% of the skills carry over $238k median

General Internal Medicine Physicians 90% of the skills carry over $236k median

Nurse Anesthetists 83% of the skills carry over $223k median

Veterinarians 83% of the skills carry over $126k 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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