Occupation
Insurance Underwriters
Review individual applications for insurance to evaluate degree of risk involved and determine acceptance of applications.
Is Insurance Underwriters a safe career from AI?
Insurance Underwriters scores 95 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 21, 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 53 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 3.8% over ten years.
What Insurance Underwriters pay
The median wage is $79,880 a year. The lower quarter earns under $63,070 and the upper quarter over $104,820. About 107,820 people do this work in the United States.
Where Insurance Underwriters can go next
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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.