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Sustainability Specialists

Address organizational sustainability issues, such as waste stream management, green building practices, and green procurement plans.

89 AI exposure
24 Human advantage
65 Market demand
60 AI leverage

Is Sustainability Specialists a safe career from AI?

Sustainability Specialists scores 89 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 24, 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 65 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 Sustainability Specialists pay

The median wage is $81,270 a year. The lower quarter earns under $60,820 and the upper quarter over $110,030. About 1,128,200 people do this work in the United States.

Where Sustainability Specialists can go next

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

Chief Sustainability Officers 93% of the skills carry over $206k median
Computer and Information Systems Managers 90% of the skills carry over $171k median
Quality Control Systems Managers 87% of the skills carry over $121k median
First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 85% of the skills carry over $106k 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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