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Occupation

Registered Nurses

Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients. May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management. Licensing or registration required.

69 AI exposure
41 Human advantage
69 Market demand
56 AI leverage

Is Registered Nurses a safe career from AI?

Registered Nurses scores 69 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 41. 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 69 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 5.6% over ten years.

What Registered Nurses pay

The median wage is $93,600 a year. The lower quarter earns under $78,610 and the upper quarter over $107,960. About 3,282,010 people do this work in the United States.

Where Registered Nurses can go next

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

Nurse Practitioners 91% of the skills carry over $129k median
Physician Assistants 91% of the skills carry over $133k median
Dentists, General 87% of the skills carry over $173k median
First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 87% of the skills carry over $106k 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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