Occupation
Cooks, Short Order
Prepare and cook to order a variety of foods that require only a short preparation time. May take orders from customers and serve patrons at counters or tables.
Is Cooks, Short Order a safe career from AI?
Cooks, Short Order scores 49 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 39, 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 53 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 5.2% over ten years.
What Cooks, Short Order pay
The median wage is $35,620 a year. The lower quarter earns under $30,160 and the upper quarter over $39,990. About 150,420 people do this work in the United States.
Where Cooks, Short Order can go next
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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.