Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other
SOC Code: 29-1299
Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other carries a 16% AI exposure score (Low automation risk), with a median annual wage of $113,730 and +2.0% projected employment growth from 2024 to 2034 (BLS), affecting approximately 41,300 workers. Full task breakdown, skills, and employer data are below.
Proportion of tasks susceptible to AI automation (O*NET analysis)
At 16% AI exposure, Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other sits 21 points below the 37.2% average across 832 U.S. occupations - more exposed than 3% of them. It ranks among the more AI-resilient roles in the dataset.
Career outlook score
77/100
Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other, weighted across 3 of 3 tracked dimensions
A weighted composite of median wage, projected growth, and AI-automation security (inverted exposure), each benchmarked against every other tracked occupation. It describes this occupation's standing across those three dimensions, not a guarantee of future outcomes.
- Median wage A+ $113,730
Annual median wage, percentile rank vs all tracked occupations
- Projected growth D +2.0%
Projected employment change, 2024-2034, BLS Employment Projections
- AI exposure (inverted) A+ 16% exposure
Lower O*NET task-automability scores lower risk; this dimension scores security, not exposure
Home health and personal care aides is #1 of 832 occupations by employment (4.3M, AI exposure rank #392 at 35%) vs. Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks #1 by AI task exposure (95%, employment rank #17 at 1.6M).
Automation-risk inventory
Exclusive cut of 832 occupations by PlainWorkforce automation-risk band. Orthogonal to the continuous AI-exposure distribution chart below and to this occupation's single risk badge, this is the corpus band mix, with Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other in the Low band.
Credential × growth standing
Graduate credential among the thinner entry shelves
Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other is in the Graduate band (113 of 832) with BLS pace Average (378/832). Graduate entry is a minority shelf - pairing it with average growth is the standing that separates this SOC from bachelor-dominated neighbors.
Where Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other sits among all occupations
AI-exposure score distribution across 832 U.S. occupations (O*NET task analysis). This occupation is marked in rose.
Where Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other sits by AI exposure
AI-exposure score distribution across U.S. occupations (O*NET task analysis)
16% Among the lowest lower than 97% of 832 occupations
Occupations, banded by AI-exposure score
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Source O*NET task data (U.S. Department of Labor) · BLS 2024–2034
Source: O*NET task data (U.S. Department of Labor); AI-exposure scores are PlainWorkforce's analysis. As of BLS 2024–2034.
Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other vs. its occupational neighbors
AI exposure (horizontal) vs projected 2024–2034 growth (vertical) for occupations in the same SOC group. Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other is marked in rose; the top-left corner is the most future-proof.
Source: BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034 (growth) and O*NET (AI-exposure analysis by PlainWorkforce).
Employment Projections
Where This Score Comes From
Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other's Low automation-risk tier is computed from O*NET Database 30.0 task-level analysis, where each documented task the occupation performs is evaluated against current generative AI, robotic process automation, and machine-learning capabilities. A score below 40% reflects tasks anchored in physical dexterity, unstructured environments, or high-touch human interaction that current AI cannot reliably replicate.
The employment, wage, and education figures above come from a second, separate federal source: BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034, matched to the O*NET task data by Standard Occupational Classification (SOC 29-1299) code, with the wage figure cross-validated against the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024 survey. BLS figures are presented exactly as published, with no adjustment on our part; the SOC-code match is what lets Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other be compared directly against every other tracked occupation on the same basis, not just roles that happen to share a job title.
For career planners, this profile should be read alongside the task, skill, and knowledge breakdowns below and the list of employers whose workforce composition includes Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other. Adjacent occupations shown further down offer lateral moves that preserve industry knowledge while potentially reducing exposure.
Education & Entry Requirements
Top Tasks (O*NET)
- 1. Document patients' histories, including identifying data, chief complaints, illnesses, previous medical or family histories, or psychosocial characteristics.
- 2. Examine patients with problems related to ocular motility, binocular vision, amblyopia, or strabismus.
- 3. Evaluate, diagnose, or treat disorders of the visual system with an emphasis on binocular vision or abnormal eye movements.
- 4. Provide instructions to patients or family members concerning diagnoses or treatment plans.
- 5. Perform diagnostic tests or measurements, such as motor testing, visual acuity testing, lensometry, retinoscopy, and color vision testing.
- 6. Provide nonsurgical interventions, including corrective lenses, patches, drops, fusion exercises, or stereograms, to treat conditions such as strabismus, heterophoria, and convergence insufficiency.
- 7. Educate patients about health care management.
- 8. Advise patients about therapeutic exercise and nutritional medicine regimens.
- 9. Conduct physical examinations and physiological function tests for diagnostic purposes.
- 10. Administer, dispense, or prescribe natural medicines, such as food or botanical extracts, herbs, dietary supplements, vitamins, nutraceuticals, and amino acids.
Key Skills Required
- Active Listening
- Critical Thinking
- Speaking
- Social Perceptiveness
- Reading Comprehension
- Science
- Writing
- Service Orientation
- Complex Problem Solving
- Judgment and Decision Making
Knowledge Areas
- Medicine and Dentistry
- English Language
- Customer and Personal Service
- Education and Training
- Psychology
- Biology
- Therapy and Counseling
- Mathematics
- Administrative
- Physics
Frequently Asked Questions
Will AI replace Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other?
Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other has an AI exposure score of 16%, indicating a low level of automation risk. The majority of tasks in this role require human judgment, creativity, or physical presence that AI cannot easily replicate.
What is the job outlook for Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other?
According to BLS Employment Projections 2024-2034, Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other is projected to grow by 2.0% over the decade. Current employment stands at approximately 41,300 workers.
What skills are needed for Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other?
Key skills for Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other include Active Listening, Critical Thinking, Speaking, and others. Typical entry-level education is Master's degree.
How much do Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other earn?
The median annual wage for Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other is $113,730, according to BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2024). Actual earnings vary by location, experience, industry, and employer. The BLS publishes detailed wage percentiles by region in its Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program.
What education is required for Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other?
The typical entry-level education for Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other is Master's degree. Employers generally expect None of related work experience. On-the-job training typically involves None. Requirements can vary by employer and specialization.
Which companies employ Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other?
Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other roles exist across many industries and employers. Workforce composition is estimated from BLS industry-occupation employment distributions matched to SEC-registered public companies.
AI Exposure Rating
Low automation risk based on 10 analyzed tasks. Most tasks require human judgment and are resistant to automation.
Nationwide occupations with similar workforce profiles
Two data-derived peer sets for Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other: AI-exposure neighbors and BLS 2034 growth neighbors (distinct comparison neighborhoods, cross-occupation).
Similar AI exposure score
Nearest O*NET task-automability scores nationwide (16% here).
- Farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse · AI exposure 16%
- Agricultural equipment operators · AI exposure 16%
- Foundry mold and coremakers · AI exposure 17%
- Helpers--brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, and tile and marble setters · AI exposure 17%
Similar projected growth (2024–2034)
Nearest BLS employment change rates nationwide (+2.0% here).
- Architecture teachers, postsecondary · growth +2.0%
- Cooks, institution and cafeteria · growth +2.0%
- Criminal justice and law enforcement teachers, postsecondary · growth +2.0%
- Designers, all other · growth +2.0%
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on published BLS + O*NET metrics among occupations with ≥10,000 workers in 2024; corpus ranks above sort the full tracked set.
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What to do with this
Use Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other's numbers above to compare, not just read in isolation.
- Compare Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other side by side against another occupation on wage, growth, and AI exposure. Workforce comparison tool
- Understand how the AI exposure score above is actually calculated before treating it as a verdict. Reading AI exposure scores
- See the full ranked list of occupations with the lowest automation exposure nationwide. Safest occupations from AI
AI exposure scores estimate task automatability from O*NET data; they are not a certainty of job loss, and BLS growth projections are estimates, not guarantees.
Data sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2024–2034 and O*NET Database 30.0. Employment figures are rounded. Wage data from BLS Occupational Employment Statistics (OES).