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Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive

Perform routine administrative functions such as drafting correspondence, scheduling appointments, organizing and maintaining paper and electronic files, or providing information to callers.

90 AI exposure
24 Human advantage
58 Market demand
60 AI leverage

Is Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive a safe career from AI?

Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive scores 90 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 24, 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 falling 6% over ten years.

What Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive pay

The median wage is $46,290 a year. The lower quarter earns under $37,770 and the upper quarter over $55,650. About 1,737,820 people do this work in the United States.

Where Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive 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 95% of the skills carry over $74k median
Office Clerks, General 94% of the skills carry over $44k median
Administrative Services Managers 77% of the skills carry over $108k median
Speech-Language Pathologists 73% of the skills carry over $95k 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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