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Media Programming Directors

Direct and coordinate activities of personnel engaged in preparation of radio or television station program schedules and programs, such as sports or news.

86 AI exposure
24 Human advantage
60 Market demand
58 AI leverage

Is Media Programming Directors a safe career from AI?

Media Programming Directors scores 86 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 24, 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 60 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 Media Programming Directors pay

The median wage is $83,480 a year. The lower quarter earns under $59,810 and the upper quarter over $131,160. About 145,270 people do this work in the United States.

Where Media Programming Directors can go next

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

Chief Executives 91% of the skills carry over $206k median
Chief Sustainability Officers 88% of the skills carry over $206k median
Telecommunications Engineering Specialists 85% of the skills carry over $130k median
Optometrists 84% of the skills carry over $135k 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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