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Computer and Mathematical · SOC 15-2011

5.4% AI Exposure — Medium
$130,000
Median Annual Salary
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O*NET Outlook
2,200
Proj. Annual Openings
26,670
Employment (OEWS 2025)
+3.1%/yr
Empl. growth (2019–2025)
95/100
AI Resiliency Score

AI exposure from the Anthropic Economic Index (2025); salary from BLS; skills from O*NET. See /sources.

Decision card

Career Evidence Passport

SOC 15-2011 evidence across exposure, wages, projections, postings, certified LCAs, skills, and transitions.

Proxy / seed data labeledDescriptive-only
SOC exposure
5.4%
Medium · Anthropic AEI
Automation friction
44/100
Moderate friction; broad SOC seed ORS job-requirements coverage.
Wages
$130,000
H-1B offered wage $128,000; LCAs are filings.
Projected openings
2,200
BLS EP 2024–2034; employment change +21.8%.
Observed/proxy demand
495
FY2025 certified LCAs; 4,427 postings in 2025.

Skill evidence

Reading ComprehensionMathematicsCritical ThinkingJudgment and Decision MakingActive Listening
  • H-1B values are certified Labor Condition Applications, not visa approvals.
  • Job postings are seed-static / seed-derived; treat as provider-ready proxy coverage until observed provider data is wired in.
  • Transition matches are directional skill-overlap context, not placement guarantees.
  • This release is a FutureGrid broad-SOC seed derived from public BLS ORS requirement concepts and categories, not direct occupation-level ORS survey estimates. It describes job requirements, not worker ability, AI capability, or displacement probability. Automation friction is a FutureGrid derived score and should be read alongside exposure, demand, wage, and projection signals.

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Lower AI-exposure roles that reuse your skills, ranked by a transition score (skills that transfer, safety gain, pay and retraining effort).

AI Exposure Analysis

AI Exposure5.4%
AI Resiliency95/100
Exposure BandMedium
Sector Avg. Exposure35.3%

Across AI measures

Multiple exposure lenses for this occupation.

51.7%
Consensus
Actual adoption · Anthropic5.4%
AI capability · OpenAI50%
AI ability · AIOE99.7%
Automation baseline (2013) · Frey & Osborne21%

AI could do ~50% of this role but only ~5.4% is currently done with AI — a large capability-vs-adoption gap.

Top Skills

1.Reading Comprehension
2.Mathematics
3.Critical Thinking
4.Judgment and Decision Making
5.Active Listening

H-1B Visa Sponsorship Demand

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Certified H-1B Labor Condition Applications naming this occupation, FY2016–FY2025. A descriptive high-skill labor-demand signal — employer filings, not visa approvals or individual outcomes. Note: one LCA can cover multiple worker positions.

5,357
Decade Total (Certified LCAs)
495
FY2025 Volume
0% of all H-1B filings in FY2025
$128,000
Median Offered Wage (Latest Year)
#74 of 776
Rank by Total Volume
H-1B filing volume, FY2016–FY2025

O*NET occupation profile

What this work involves

Analyze statistical data, such as mortality, accident, sickness, disability, and retirement rates and construct probability tables to forecast risk and liability for payment of future benefits. May ascertain insurance rates required and cash reserves necessary to ensure payment of future benefits.

Common titles: Actuarial Analyst, Actuarial Associate, Actuarial Consultant, Actuary, Consulting Actuary, Corporate Actuary

Representative Tasks

  • Ascertain premium rates required and cash reserves and liabilities necessary to ensure payment of future benefits.
  • Collaborate with programmers, underwriters, accounts, claims experts, and senior management to help companies develop plans for new lines of business or improvements to existing business.
  • Analyze statistical information to estimate mortality, accident, sickness, disability, and retirement rates.
  • Design, review, and help administer insurance, annuity and pension plans, determining financial soundness and calculating premiums.
  • Determine, or help determine, company policy, and explain complex technical matters to company executives, government officials, shareholders, policyholders, or the public.

Detailed Work Activities

  • Manage financial activities of the organization.
  • Collaborate with others to develop or implement marketing strategies.
  • Analyze health-related data.
  • Develop organizational goals or objectives.
  • Analyze data to identify trends or relationships among variables.

Tools & Technologies

Microsoft PowerPoint · hotPython · hotR · hotSAS · hotStructured query language SQL · hotC++ · hotIBM SPSS Statistics · hotMicrosoft Access · hotMicrosoft SQL Server · hotOracle Database · hot

Employment Projections & AI Exposure

5
Occupations Shown
31.9%
Avg AI Exposure
4
Bright Outlook
Horizontal bar chart showing occupations with the highest projected annual openings. Each bar length represents annual projected openings. Color uses a gradient from violet (lower) to cyan (higher). Summary statistics are shown above the chart.

Employment & Wage Trend

BLS OEWS, 2019–2025


Occupation Employment & Wage TrendMulti-year BLS OEWS history for SOC 15-2011: 2019 — employment: 22,260, median wage: $108,350; 2020 — employment: 22,480, median wage: $111,030; 2021 — employment: 23,040, median wage: $105,900; 2022 — employment: 25,010, median wage: $113,990; 2023 — employment: 25,470, median wage: $120,000; 2025 — employment: 26,670, median wage: $130,000.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS). See /sources.

Sector Comparison

MetricThis CareerSector Average
AI Exposure5.4%35.3%
OutlookBright ↗19% Bright
Median Salary$130,000N/A
AI Resiliency95/100N/A