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Occupational Therapy Assistants

Assist occupational therapists in providing occupational therapy treatments and procedures. May, in accordance with state laws, assist in development of treatment plans, carry out routine functions, direct activity programs, and document the progress of treatments. Generally requires formal training.

56 AI exposure
45 Human advantage
73 Market demand
51 AI leverage

Is Occupational Therapy Assistants a safe career from AI?

Occupational Therapy Assistants scores 56 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 45. 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 73 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 21.5% over ten years.

What Occupational Therapy Assistants pay

The median wage is $68,340 a year. The lower quarter earns under $59,950 and the upper quarter over $77,340. About 47,910 people do this work in the United States.

Where Occupational Therapy Assistants can go next

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

Nurse Midwives 93% of the skills carry over $129k median
Physical Therapists 92% of the skills carry over $101k median
First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 86% of the skills carry over $106k median
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 87% of the skills carry over $94k 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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