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Customs and Border Protection Officers

Investigate and inspect persons, common carriers, goods, and merchandise, arriving in or departing from the United States or between states to detect violations of immigration and customs laws and regulations.

48 AI exposure
53 Human advantage
64 Market demand
50 AI leverage

Is Customs and Border Protection Officers a safe career from AI?

Customs and Border Protection Officers scores 48 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 53. 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 64 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 Customs and Border Protection Officers pay

The median wage is $76,290 a year. The lower quarter earns under $58,980 and the upper quarter over $97,190. About 666,990 people do this work in the United States.

Where Customs and Border Protection Officers can go next

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

Compliance Managers 87% of the skills carry over $137k median
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 92% of the skills carry over $94k 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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