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Judicial Law Clerks

Assist judges in court or by conducting research or preparing legal documents.

98 AI exposure
19 Human advantage
54 Market demand
62 AI leverage

Is Judicial Law Clerks a safe career from AI?

Judicial Law Clerks scores 98 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 19, 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 54 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment roughly flat over ten years.

What Judicial Law Clerks pay

The median wage is $60,400 a year. The lower quarter earns under $49,840 and the upper quarter over $78,060. About 13,220 people do this work in the United States.

Where Judicial Law Clerks can go next

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

Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers 85% of the skills carry over $115k median
Credit Analysts 86% of the skills carry over $81k median
Air Traffic Controllers 69% of the skills carry over $145k median
Compliance Managers 70% 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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