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Occupation

Flight Attendants

Monitor safety of the aircraft cabin. Provide services to airline passengers, explain safety information, serve food and beverages, and respond to emergency incidents.

45 AI exposure
54 Human advantage
64 Market demand
49 AI leverage

Is Flight Attendants a safe career from AI?

Flight Attendants scores 45 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is low. Most of what this job involves is not the kind of task current AI systems are good at, largely because it happens in a physical place rather than on a screen.

Its human advantage score is 54. 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 64 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 8.8% over ten years.

What Flight Attendants pay

The median wage is $67,130 a year. The lower quarter earns under $52,280 and the upper quarter over $98,160. About 130,110 people do this work in the United States.

Where Flight Attendants 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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