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Occupation

Nursing Assistants

Provide or assist with basic care or support under the direction of onsite licensed nursing staff. Perform duties such as monitoring of health status, feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, or ambulation of patients in a health or nursing facility. May include medication administration and other health-related tasks. Includes nursing care attendants, nursing aides, and nursing attendants.

42 AI exposure
49 Human advantage
64 Market demand
45 AI leverage

Is Nursing Assistants a safe career from AI?

Nursing Assistants scores 42 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is low. Most of what this job involves is not the kind of task current AI systems are good at, largely because it happens in a physical place rather than on a screen.

Its human advantage score is 49. 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 64 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 Nursing Assistants pay

The median wage is $39,530 a year. The lower quarter earns under $36,260 and the upper quarter over $46,070. About 1,388,430 people do this work in the United States.

Where Nursing Assistants can go next

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

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Acute Care Nurses 82% of the skills carry over $94k median
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 76% of the skills carry over $94k median
Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers 78% of the skills carry over $76k 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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