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Exercise Physiologists

Assess, plan, or implement fitness programs that include exercise or physical activities such as those designed to improve cardiorespiratory function, body composition, muscular strength, muscular endurance, or flexibility.

63 AI exposure
40 Human advantage
61 Market demand
53 AI leverage

Is Exercise Physiologists a safe career from AI?

Exercise Physiologists scores 63 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 40. 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 61 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 12.8% over ten years.

What Exercise Physiologists pay

The median wage is $58,160 a year. The lower quarter earns under $48,650 and the upper quarter over $65,430. About 8,110 people do this work in the United States.

Where Exercise Physiologists can go next

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

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Nurse Anesthetists 87% of the skills carry over $223k median
Veterinarians 84% of the skills carry over $126k 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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