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Desktop Publishers

Format typescript and graphic elements using computer software to produce publication-ready material.

72 AI exposure
22 Human advantage
36 Market demand
50 AI leverage

Is Desktop Publishers a safe career from AI?

Desktop Publishers scores 72 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 22, 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 36 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 14.5% over ten years.

What Desktop Publishers pay

The median wage is $53,620 a year. The lower quarter earns under $42,680 and the upper quarter over $71,990. About 4,000 people do this work in the United States.

Where Desktop Publishers can go next

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

Writers and Authors 90% of the skills carry over $72k median
News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists 86% of the skills carry over $60k median
Medical Dosimetrists 74% of the skills carry over $138k median
Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers 75% of the skills carry over $99k 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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