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Manicurists and Pedicurists

Clean and shape customers' fingernails and toenails. May polish or decorate nails.

64 AI exposure
29 Human advantage
65 Market demand
48 AI leverage

Is Manicurists and Pedicurists a safe career from AI?

Manicurists and Pedicurists scores 64 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 29, 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 65 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 9.2% over ten years.

What Manicurists and Pedicurists pay

The median wage is $34,660 a year. The lower quarter earns under $31,510 and the upper quarter over $37,660. About 147,820 people do this work in the United States.

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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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