Occupation
Nuclear Medicine Technologists
Prepare, administer, and measure radioactive isotopes in therapeutic, diagnostic, and tracer studies using a variety of radioisotope equipment. Prepare stock solutions of radioactive materials and calculate doses to be administered by radiologists. Subject patients to radiation. Execute blood volume, red cell survival, and fat absorption studies following standard laboratory techniques.
Is Nuclear Medicine Technologists a safe career from AI?
Nuclear Medicine Technologists scores 66 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 43. 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 56 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 Nuclear Medicine Technologists pay
The median wage is $97,020 a year. The lower quarter earns under $83,020 and the upper quarter over $108,190. About 16,960 people do this work in the United States.
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