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Shampooers

Shampoo and rinse customers' hair.

42 AI exposure
38 Human advantage
55 Market demand
40 AI leverage

Is Shampooers a safe career from AI?

Shampooers scores 42 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 38, 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 55 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 Shampooers pay

The median wage is $31,470 a year. The lower quarter earns under $27,390 and the upper quarter over $35,610. About 8,890 people do this work in the United States.

Where Shampooers can go next

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

Waiters and Waitresses 78% of the skills carry over $34k 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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