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Occupation

Supply Chain Managers

Direct or coordinate production, purchasing, warehousing, distribution, or financial forecasting services or activities to limit costs and improve accuracy, customer service, or safety. Examine existing procedures or opportunities for streamlining activities to meet product distribution needs. Direct the movement, storage, or processing of inventory.

85 AI exposure
30 Human advantage
63 Market demand
60 AI leverage

Is Supply Chain Managers a safe career from AI?

Supply Chain Managers scores 85 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 30, 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 growing 6.1% over ten years.

What Supply Chain Managers pay

The median wage is $102,010 a year. The lower quarter earns under $78,360 and the upper quarter over $136,050. About 213,000 people do this work in the United States.

Where Supply Chain Managers can go next

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

Chief Executives 91% of the skills carry over $206k median
Chief Sustainability Officers 92% of the skills carry over $206k median
Optometrists 83% of the skills carry over $135k median
Biofuels Production Managers 86% of the skills carry over $121k 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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