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Retail Loss Prevention Specialists

Implement procedures and systems to prevent merchandise loss. Conduct audits and investigations of employee activity. May assist in developing policies, procedures, and systems for safeguarding assets.

65 AI exposure
36 Human advantage
58 Market demand
52 AI leverage

Is Retail Loss Prevention Specialists a safe career from AI?

Retail Loss Prevention Specialists 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 36, 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 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 Retail Loss Prevention Specialists pay

The median wage is $41,600 a year. The lower quarter earns under $35,540 and the upper quarter over $54,310. About 83,110 people do this work in the United States.

Where Retail Loss Prevention Specialists can go next

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

Loss Prevention Managers 90% of the skills carry over $137k median
Compliance Managers 93% of the skills carry over $137k median
First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 84% of the skills carry over $106k median
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 88% 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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