Occupation
Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports Officials
Officiate at competitive athletic or sporting events. Detect infractions of rules and decide penalties according to established regulations. Includes all sporting officials, referees, and competition judges.
Is Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports Officials a safe career from AI?
Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports Officials scores 63 out of 100 for AI exposure, around the middle of the US labor market. Parts of this work overlap with what AI does well and parts do not.
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 growing 5.2% over ten years.
What Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports Officials pay
The median wage is $38,820 a year. The lower quarter earns under $30,920 and the upper quarter over $53,560. About 15,080 people do this work in the United States.
Where Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports Officials 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.