Occupation
Security Guards
Guard, patrol, or monitor premises to prevent theft, violence, or infractions of rules. May operate x-ray and metal detector equipment.
Is Security Guards a safe career from AI?
Security Guards scores 54 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is low. Most of what this job involves is not the kind of task current AI systems are good at, largely because it happens in a physical place rather than on a screen.
Its human advantage score is 37, 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 63 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 Security Guards pay
The median wage is $38,370 a year. The lower quarter earns under $35,100 and the upper quarter over $46,660. About 1,241,770 people do this work in the United States.
Where Security Guards can go next
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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.