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Education Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses pertaining to education, such as counseling, curriculum, guidance, instruction, teacher education, and teaching English as a second language. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

92 AI exposure
22 Human advantage
57 Market demand
61 AI leverage

Is Education Teachers, Postsecondary a safe career from AI?

Education Teachers, Postsecondary scores 92 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 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 57 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 Education Teachers, Postsecondary pay

The median wage is $72,090 a year. The lower quarter earns under $50,630 and the upper quarter over $96,260. About 59,090 people do this work in the United States.

Where Education Teachers, Postsecondary can go next

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

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Nurse Practitioners 85% of the skills carry over $129k median
Physician Assistants 84% of the skills carry over $133k 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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