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Occupation

Human Resources Specialists

Recruit, screen, interview, or place individuals within an organization. May perform other activities in multiple human resources areas.

96 AI exposure
29 Human advantage
67 Market demand
66 AI leverage

Is Human Resources Specialists a safe career from AI?

Human Resources Specialists scores 96 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 29, 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 67 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 6.4% over ten years.

What Human Resources Specialists pay

The median wage is $72,910 a year. The lower quarter earns under $55,870 and the upper quarter over $97,270. About 917,460 people do this work in the United States.

Where Human Resources Specialists can go next

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

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Loss Prevention Managers 88% 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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