Occupation
Statistical Assistants
Compile and compute data according to statistical formulas for use in statistical studies. May perform actuarial computations and compile charts and graphs for use by actuaries. Includes actuarial clerks.
Is Statistical Assistants a safe career from AI?
Statistical Assistants scores 97 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 18, 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 48 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 Statistical Assistants pay
The median wage is $51,440 a year. The lower quarter earns under $45,970 and the upper quarter over $63,620. About 5,900 people do this work in the United States.
Where Statistical Assistants 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.