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Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists

Provide social services to assist in rehabilitation of law offenders in custody or on probation or parole. Make recommendations for actions involving formulation of rehabilitation plan and treatment of offender, including conditional release and education and employment stipulations.

76 AI exposure
42 Human advantage
58 Market demand
61 AI leverage

Is Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists a safe career from AI?

Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists scores 76 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is high. A large share of this work is the kind current AI systems are measurably good at. That is not a prediction the job disappears, and the research does not support one. It means more of this role is likely to change than most.

Its human advantage score is 42. 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 58 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 Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists pay

The median wage is $64,520 a year. The lower quarter earns under $52,580 and the upper quarter over $84,030. About 86,820 people do this work in the United States.

Where Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists can go next

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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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