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Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses

Care for ill, injured, or convalescing patients or persons with disabilities in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, private homes, group homes, and similar institutions. May work under the supervision of a registered nurse. Licensing required.

51 AI exposure
44 Human advantage
63 Market demand
48 AI leverage

Is Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses a safe career from AI?

Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses scores 51 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is low. Most of what this job involves is not the kind of task current AI systems are good at, largely because it happens in a physical place rather than on a screen.

Its human advantage score is 44. There is a real physical and in-person component to this work, alongside a good deal that could be done from anywhere. Market demand scores 63 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 Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses pay

The median wage is $62,340 a year. The lower quarter earns under $55,220 and the upper quarter over $73,160. About 632,430 people do this work in the United States.

Where Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses can go next

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

Nurse Practitioners 89% of the skills carry over $129k median
Nurse Midwives 93% of the skills carry over $129k median
First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 84% of the skills carry over $106k median
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 85% of the skills carry over $94k 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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