Occupation

Conservation Scientists

Manage, improve, and protect natural resources to maximize their use without damaging the environment. May conduct soil surveys and develop plans to eliminate soil erosion or to protect rangelands. May instruct farmers, agricultural production managers, or ranchers in best ways to use crop rotation, contour plowing, or terracing to conserve soil and water; in the number and kind of livestock and forage plants best suited to particular ranges; and in range and farm improvements, such as fencing and reservoirs for stock watering.

65 AI exposure

36 Human advantage

58 Market demand

52 AI leverage

Is Conservation Scientists a safe career from AI?

Conservation Scientists scores 65 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 36, 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 58 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 5.3% over ten years.

What Conservation Scientists pay

The median wage is $67,950 a year. The lower quarter earns under $53,190 and the upper quarter over $87,980. About 25,590 people do this work in the United States.

Where Conservation Scientists can go next

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

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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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