Occupation

Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants

Perform secretarial duties using specific knowledge of medical terminology and hospital, clinic, or laboratory procedures. Duties may include scheduling appointments, billing patients, and compiling and recording medical charts, reports, and correspondence.

93 AI exposure

27 Human advantage

65 Market demand

63 AI leverage

Is Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants a safe career from AI?

Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants scores 93 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 27, 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 roughly flat over ten years.

What Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants pay

The median wage is $44,640 a year. The lower quarter earns under $37,880 and the upper quarter over $49,720. About 830,760 people do this work in the United States.

Where Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants can go next

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

Clinical Research Coordinators 83% of the skills carry over $161k median

Human Resources Specialists 82% of the skills carry over $73k median

General Internal Medicine Physicians 77% of the skills carry over $236k median

Podiatrists 80% of the skills carry over $153k 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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