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Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers

Monitor recreational areas, such as pools, beaches, or ski slopes, to provide assistance and protection to participants.

52 AI exposure
42 Human advantage
62 Market demand
48 AI leverage

Is Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers a safe career from AI?

Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers scores 52 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 42. 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 62 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 5.5% over ten years.

What Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers pay

The median wage is $33,720 a year. The lower quarter earns under $28,840 and the upper quarter over $37,750. About 143,590 people do this work in the United States.

Where Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers can go next

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

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Occupational Therapy Assistants 83% of the skills carry over $68k median
First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 74% of the skills carry over $106k median
Acute Care Nurses 81% 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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