Occupation

Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers

Plan, direct, or coordinate the management or operation of farms, ranches, greenhouses, aquacultural operations, nurseries, timber tracts, or other agricultural establishments. May hire, train, and supervise farm workers or contract for services to carry out the day-to-day activities of the managed operation. May engage in or supervise planting, cultivating, harvesting, and financial and marketing activities.

60 AI exposure

51 Human advantage

47 Market demand

56 AI leverage

Is Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers a safe career from AI?

Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers scores 60 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 51. 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 47 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 3.4% over ten years.

What Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers pay

The median wage is $87,980 a year. The lower quarter earns under $67,970 and the upper quarter over $115,200. About 5,910 people do this work in the United States.

Where Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers can go next

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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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