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Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians, All Other

Life, Physical, and Social Science · SOC 19-4099

9.6% AI Exposure — Medium
$62,280
Median Annual Salary
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O*NET Outlook
9,400
Proj. Annual Openings
73,910
Employment (OEWS 2025)
+2.4%/yr
Empl. growth (2019–2025)
90/100
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 19-4099 evidence across exposure, wages, projections, postings, certified LCAs, skills, and transitions.

Proxy / seed data labeledDescriptive-only
SOC exposure
9.6%
Medium · Anthropic AEI
Automation friction
33/100
Low friction; broad SOC seed ORS job-requirements coverage.
Wages
$62,280
No H-1B offered-wage row for this SOC.
Projected openings
9,400
BLS EP 2024–2034; employment change +3.5%.
Observed/proxy demand
—
FY— certified LCAs; 12,209 postings in 2025.

Skill evidence

Quality Control AnalysisReading ComprehensionMonitoringCritical ThinkingReading Comprehension

Transition context

Respiratory TherapistsMatch 81AnesthesiologistsMatch 80Nuclear EngineersMatch 79
  • 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.

Best transitions from here

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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).

Respiratory Therapists

81
Match
↓10 exposure+$20k payTraining lvl unavailable

Skills to build:

Active ListeningSpeaking

Anesthesiologists

80
Match
↓10 exposure+$329k payTraining lvl unavailable

Skills to build:

Active ListeningJudgment and Decision Making

Nuclear Engineers

79
Match
↓10 exposure+$72k payTraining lvl unavailable

Skills to build:

ScienceActive Listening

AI Exposure Analysis

AI Exposure9.6%
AI Resiliency90/100
Exposure BandMedium
Sector Avg. Exposure9.7%

Across AI measures

Multiple exposure lenses for this occupation.

45.8%
Consensus
Actual adoption · Anthropic9.6%
AI capability · OpenAI53.5%
AI ability · AIOE74.3%
Automation baseline (2013) · Frey & Osborne61%

AI could do ~53.5% of this role but only ~9.6% is currently done with AI — a large capability-vs-adoption gap.

Top Skills

1.Quality Control Analysis
2.Reading Comprehension
3.Monitoring
4.Critical Thinking
5.Reading Comprehension

H-1B Visa Sponsorship Demand

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No H-1B certified LCA filings recorded for this occupation in FY2016–FY2025.

O*NET occupation profile

What this work involves

All life, physical, and social science technicians not listed separately.

Representative Tasks

    Detailed Work Activities

      Employment Projections & AI Exposure

      15
      Occupations Shown
      12.1%
      Avg AI Exposure
      8
      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 19-4099: 2019 — employment: 64,260, median wage: $50,550; 2020 — employment: 62,080, median wage: $52,460; 2021 — employment: 62,230, median wage: $49,030; 2022 — employment: 70,770, median wage: $50,290; 2023 — employment: 72,230, median wage: $58,350; 2025 — employment: 73,910, median wage: $62,280.

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

      Sector Comparison

      MetricThis CareerSector Average
      AI Exposure9.6%9.7%
      OutlookBright ↗37% Bright
      Median Salary$62,280N/A
      AI Resiliency90/100N/A