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Occupation

Curators

Administer collections, such as artwork, collectibles, historic items, or scientific specimens of museums or other institutions. May conduct instructional, research, or public service activities of institution.

81 AI exposure
28 Human advantage
56 Market demand
57 AI leverage

Is Curators a safe career from AI?

Curators scores 81 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 28, 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 56 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 Curators pay

The median wage is $61,770 a year. The lower quarter earns under $47,270 and the upper quarter over $81,350. About 12,280 people do this work in the United States.

Where Curators can go next

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

Chief Sustainability Officers 86% of the skills carry over $206k median
Natural Sciences Managers 84% of the skills carry over $161k median
Loss Prevention Managers 82% of the skills carry over $137k median
Industrial Production Managers 82% of the skills carry over $121k 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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