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Labor Relations Specialists

Resolve disputes between workers and managers, negotiate collective bargaining agreements, or coordinate grievance procedures to handle employee complaints.

95 AI exposure
25 Human advantage
57 Market demand
64 AI leverage

Is Labor Relations Specialists a safe career from AI?

Labor Relations Specialists 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 25, 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 57 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 Labor Relations Specialists pay

The median wage is $93,500 a year. The lower quarter earns under $67,670 and the upper quarter over $123,090. About 64,590 people do this work in the United States.

Where Labor Relations Specialists can go next

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

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Industrial Production Managers 82% of the skills carry over $121k 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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