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Occupation

Coroners

Direct activities such as autopsies, pathological and toxicological analyses, and inquests relating to the investigation of deaths occurring within a legal jurisdiction to determine cause of death or to fix responsibility for accidental, violent, or unexplained deaths.

80 AI exposure
55 Human advantage
63 Market demand
69 AI leverage

Is Coroners a safe career from AI?

Coroners scores 80 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 55. There is a real physical and in-person component to this work, alongside a good deal that could be done from anywhere. 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 Coroners pay

The median wage is $78,420 a year. The lower quarter earns under $59,130 and the upper quarter over $104,800. About 397,770 people do this work in the United States.

Where Coroners can go next

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

Nurse Anesthetists 88% of the skills carry over $223k median
Nurse Practitioners 88% of the skills carry over $129k median
Dentists, General 85% of the skills carry over $173k median
Physician Assistants 86% 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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