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Occupation

File Clerks

File correspondence, cards, invoices, receipts, and other records in alphabetical or numerical order or according to the filing system used. Locate and remove material from file when requested.

70 AI exposure
27 Human advantage
42 Market demand
51 AI leverage

Is File Clerks a safe career from AI?

File Clerks scores 70 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 27, 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 42 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 15.8% over ten years.

What File Clerks pay

The median wage is $41,270 a year. The lower quarter earns under $35,120 and the upper quarter over $50,020. About 78,980 people do this work in the United States.

Where File Clerks can go next

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

Compliance Managers 87% of the skills carry over $137k median
Police Identification and Records Officers 87% of the skills carry over $94k median
Pharmacists 81% of the skills carry over $137k median
Loss Prevention Managers 80% of the skills carry over $137k 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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