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Receptionists and Information Clerks

Answer inquiries and provide information to the general public, customers, visitors, and other interested parties regarding activities conducted at establishment and location of departments, offices, and employees within the organization.

88 AI exposure
27 Human advantage
60 Market demand
61 AI leverage

Is Receptionists and Information Clerks a safe career from AI?

Receptionists and Information Clerks scores 88 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 27, 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 60 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 Receptionists and Information Clerks pay

The median wage is $37,230 a year. The lower quarter earns under $32,660 and the upper quarter over $44,070. About 964,530 people do this work in the United States.

Where Receptionists and Information Clerks can go next

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

Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants 87% of the skills carry over $74k median
Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners 83% of the skills carry over $67k median
Nuclear Medicine Technologists 70% of the skills carry over $97k median
Police Identification and Records Officers 72% 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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