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Epidemiologists

Investigate and describe the determinants and distribution of disease, disability, or health outcomes. May develop the means for prevention and control.

98 AI exposure
23 Human advantage
67 Market demand
64 AI leverage

Is Epidemiologists a safe career from AI?

Epidemiologists scores 98 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 23, 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 67 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 18.7% over ten years.

What Epidemiologists pay

The median wage is $83,980 a year. The lower quarter earns under $68,040 and the upper quarter over $106,040. About 11,460 people do this work in the United States.

Where Epidemiologists can go next

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

Nurse Practitioners 89% of the skills carry over $129k median
Actuaries 89% of the skills carry over $126k median
General Internal Medicine Physicians 84% of the skills carry over $236k median
Computer and Information Systems Managers 85% of the skills carry over $171k 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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