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Occupation AI-exposure statistics, this rebuild

A single data-true snapshot of AI task exposure across 832 US occupations, from BLS Employment Projections 2024-2034 and O*NET 30.0. Counts describe this extract, not career advice.

832
Occupations scored
37.2%
Unweighted mean AI exposure
21
Above the 70% high-exposure line
581
Projected to grow (2024-34)
The headline

This rebuild scores 832 occupations. Mean AI task exposure is 37.2% unweighted and 40.9% employment-weighted; 21 occupations sit above 70%.

According to BLS Employment Projections 2024-2034 (May 2026 extract), this page lists 832 scored occupations beside 291 industries. See the methodology or download the CSV.

Key findings

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  1. This rebuild scores 832 occupations on AI task exposure, joined to 291 industries from BLS Employment Projections 2024-2034.
  2. Unweighted mean AI task exposure is 37.2% across 832 scored occupations (O*NET 30.0 tasks; score is a 0-1 fraction shown as percent).
  3. Employment-weighted mean exposure is 40.9% across 169,956,400 2024 jobs in this extract, versus 37.2% unweighted across occupations.
  4. 21 of 832 occupations sit strictly above the 70% high-exposure line.
  5. BLS projects 581 occupations to add jobs through 2034, 244 to shrink, and 7 with a 0% projected change.
  6. Home health and personal care aides rank #1 of 832 by 2024 employment (4,347,700 jobs) and #418 of 832 by AI exposure (35%).
  7. Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks lead the AI-exposure ranking at 95% (employment rank #17 of 832, 1,613,400 jobs).
Bookkeeping, accoun...95%Billing and posting...88.1%Accountants and aud...87.4%Office clerks, general83.6%Executive secretari...82.8%Financial managers80.5%Library assistants,...79.8%Medical secretaries...79.8%
Top 8 of 832 occupations by AI task-exposure score (0-100).
0%100%37.2%
Unweighted mean AI task exposure across 832 occupations; employment-weighted mean is 40.9%.
How AI exposure is distributed across 832 occupations

Count of occupations in each 10-point AI-exposure band. Most cluster in the low-to-middle range; the high-exposure tail is thin.

National AI-exposure distribution across occupations

Unweighted mean marked against the occupation-wide histogram

Occupations, banded by AI-exposure score

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more occupations. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source O*NET 30.0 task data · BLS 2024-2034

Source: O*NET 30.0 task data (AI-exposure analysis by PlainWorkforce); BLS Employment Projections 2024-2034.

5 least AI-exposed occupations

  1. Helpers--electricians 5%
  2. Physicians, all other 11%
  3. Manufactured building and mobile home installers 11%
  4. Pediatricians, general 13%
  5. Electricians 13%
Full top-50 safest

5 most AI-exposed occupations

  1. Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks 95%
  2. Billing and posting clerks 88%
  3. Accountants and auditors 87%
  4. Office clerks, general 84%
  5. Executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants 83%
All rankings

Download the derived table: occupation AI-exposure landscape CSV (CC0).

Licensed CC0 - the underlying federal tables are public domain; this derived snapshot is dedicated to the public domain. Cite PlainWorkforce and BLS/O*NET.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections · 2024-2034 AI-exposure scores are PlainWorkforce analysis of O*NET 30.0 tasks, not a BLS series.

Every figure on PlainWorkforce is rendered directly from BLS/O*NET source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This data-study page aggregates live occupation rows (employment, projected change, and AI task-exposure scores). Superlatives here are ranks inside this extract, not career advice. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these figures, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.