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Molecular and Cellular Biologists

Research and study cellular molecules and organelles to understand cell function and organization.

88 AI exposure
32 Human advantage
59 Market demand
63 AI leverage

Is Molecular and Cellular Biologists a safe career from AI?

Molecular and Cellular Biologists scores 88 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 32, 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 59 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 Molecular and Cellular Biologists pay

The median wage is $93,330 a year. The lower quarter earns under $67,950 and the upper quarter over $121,350. About 59,710 people do this work in the United States.

Where Molecular and Cellular Biologists can go next

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

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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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