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Occupation

Transportation Planners

Prepare studies for proposed transportation projects. Gather, compile, and analyze data. Study the use and operation of transportation systems. Develop transportation models or simulations.

95 AI exposure
20 Human advantage
54 Market demand
61 AI leverage

Is Transportation Planners a safe career from AI?

Transportation Planners scores 95 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 20, 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 54 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 Transportation Planners pay

The median wage is $100,340 a year. The lower quarter earns under $79,210 and the upper quarter over $127,880. About 36,970 people do this work in the United States.

Where Transportation Planners can go next

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

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Computer and Information Systems Managers 90% of the skills carry over $171k median
Loss Prevention Managers 85% of the skills carry over $137k median
Compliance Managers 87% of the skills carry over $137k 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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