Occupation

Healthcare Social Workers

Provide individuals, families, and groups with the psychosocial support needed to cope with chronic, acute, or terminal illnesses. Services include advising family caregivers. Provide patients with information and counseling, and make referrals for other services. May also provide case and care management or interventions designed to promote health, prevent disease, and address barriers to access to healthcare.

86 AI exposure

32 Human advantage

65 Market demand

62 AI leverage

Is Healthcare Social Workers a safe career from AI?

Healthcare Social Workers scores 86 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 32, 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 65 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 8.5% over ten years.

What Healthcare Social Workers pay

The median wage is $68,090 a year. The lower quarter earns under $55,360 and the upper quarter over $83,410. About 185,940 people do this work in the United States.

Where Healthcare Social Workers can go next

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

Clinical and Counseling Psychologists 94% of the skills carry over $96k median

School Psychologists 94% of the skills carry over $87k median

Nurse Practitioners 87% of the skills carry over $129k median

Podiatrists 82% of the skills carry over $153k 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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