Occupation
Diagnostic Medical Sonographers
Produce ultrasonic recordings of internal organs for use by physicians. Includes vascular technologists.
Is Diagnostic Medical Sonographers a safe career from AI?
Diagnostic Medical Sonographers scores 57 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 47. 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 68 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 13.9% over ten years.
What Diagnostic Medical Sonographers pay
The median wage is $89,340 a year. The lower quarter earns under $78,080 and the upper quarter over $103,630. About 86,460 people do this work in the United States.
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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.