Occupation

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists

Operate Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners. Monitor patient safety and comfort, and view images of area being scanned to ensure quality of pictures. May administer gadolinium contrast dosage intravenously. May interview patient, explain MRI procedures, and position patient on examining table. May enter into the computer data such as patient history, anatomical area to be scanned, orientation specified, and position of entry.

62 AI exposure

40 Human advantage

61 Market demand

52 AI leverage

Is Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists a safe career from AI?

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists scores 62 out of 100 for AI exposure, around the middle of the US labor market. Parts of this work overlap with what AI does well and parts do not.

Its human advantage score is 40. 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 61 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 7.7% over ten years.

What Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists pay

The median wage is $88,180 a year. The lower quarter earns under $78,150 and the upper quarter over $102,440. About 41,530 people do this work in the United States.

Where Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists can go next

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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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