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Critical Care Nurses

Provide specialized nursing care for patients in critical or coronary care units.

69 AI exposure
49 Human advantage
69 Market demand
60 AI leverage

Is Critical Care Nurses a safe career from AI?

Critical Care Nurses scores 69 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 49. 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 69 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 5.6% over ten years.

What Critical Care Nurses pay

The median wage is $93,600 a year. The lower quarter earns under $78,610 and the upper quarter over $107,960. About 3,282,010 people do this work in the United States.

Where Critical Care Nurses can go next

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

General Internal Medicine Physicians 90% of the skills carry over $236k median
Nurse Anesthetists 93% of the skills carry over $223k median
Dentists, General 88% of the skills carry over $173k median
First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 85% of the skills carry over $106k 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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