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Veterinary Technologists and Technicians

Perform medical tests in a laboratory environment for use in the treatment and diagnosis of diseases in animals. Prepare vaccines and serums for prevention of diseases. Prepare tissue samples, take blood samples, and execute laboratory tests, such as urinalysis and blood counts. Clean and sterilize instruments and materials and maintain equipment and machines. May assist a veterinarian during surgery.

55 AI exposure
49 Human advantage
65 Market demand
52 AI leverage

Is Veterinary Technologists and Technicians a safe career from AI?

Veterinary Technologists and Technicians scores 55 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 49. There is a real physical and in-person component to this work, alongside a good deal that could be done from anywhere. 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 growing 9.4% over ten years.

What Veterinary Technologists and Technicians pay

The median wage is $45,980 a year. The lower quarter earns under $37,390 and the upper quarter over $50,960. About 131,320 people do this work in the United States.

Where Veterinary Technologists and Technicians can go next

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

Anesthesiologist Assistants 92% of the skills carry over $133k median
Veterinarians 88% of the skills carry over $126k median
Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors 77% of the skills carry over $64k median
Paramedics 82% of the skills carry over $58k 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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