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Special Education Teachers, Middle School

Teach academic, social, and life skills to middle school students with learning, emotional, or physical disabilities. Includes teachers who specialize and work with students who are blind or have visual impairments; students who are deaf or have hearing impairments; and students with intellectual disabilities.

94 AI exposure
36 Human advantage
56 Market demand
68 AI leverage

Is Special Education Teachers, Middle School a safe career from AI?

Special Education Teachers, Middle School scores 94 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 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 56 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 Special Education Teachers, Middle School pay

The median wage is $64,880 a year. The lower quarter earns under $58,590 and the upper quarter over $81,940. About 95,330 people do this work in the United States.

Where Special Education Teachers, Middle School can go next

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

Loss Prevention Managers 89% of the skills carry over $137k median
School Psychologists 91% of the skills carry over $87k median
Nurse Practitioners 85% of the skills carry over $129k median
Physician Assistants 85% of the skills carry over $133k 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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