Occupation
Ophthalmic Medical Technicians
Assist ophthalmologists by performing ophthalmic clinical functions. May administer eye exams, administer eye medications, and instruct the patient in care and use of corrective lenses.
Is Ophthalmic Medical Technicians a safe career from AI?
Ophthalmic Medical Technicians scores 65 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 35, 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 74 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 21.4% over ten years.
What Ophthalmic Medical Technicians pay
The median wage is $44,080 a year. The lower quarter earns under $37,100 and the upper quarter over $49,730. About 76,520 people do this work in the United States.
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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.