Occupation
Physician Assistants
Provide healthcare services typically performed by a physician, under the supervision of a physician. Conduct complete physicals, provide treatment, and counsel patients. May, in some cases, prescribe medication. Must graduate from an accredited educational program for physician assistants.
Is Physician Assistants a safe career from AI?
Physician Assistants 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 44. 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 75 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 21.1% over ten years.
What Physician Assistants pay
The median wage is $133,260 a year. The lower quarter earns under $113,770 and the upper quarter over $160,160. About 155,540 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.