Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors
Community and Social Service · SOC 21-1012
AI exposure from the Anthropic Economic Index (2025); salary from BLS; skills from O*NET. See /sources.
Decision card
Career Evidence Passport
SOC 21-1012 evidence across exposure, wages, projections, postings, certified LCAs, skills, and transitions.
- SOC exposure
- 11.8%
- Medium · Anthropic AEI
- Automation friction
- 58/100
- Moderate friction; broad SOC seed ORS job-requirements coverage.
- Wages
- $64,330
- H-1B offered wage $56,211; LCAs are filings.
- Projected openings
- 37,300
- BLS EP 2024–2034; employment change +3.5%.
- Observed/proxy demand
- 328
- FY2025 certified LCAs; 73,582 postings in 2025.
Skill evidence
- 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
Explore all pathways→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
Across AI measures
Multiple exposure lenses for this occupation.
AI could do ~28.9% of this role but only ~11.8% is currently done with AI — a large capability-vs-adoption gap.
Top Skills
H-1B Visa Sponsorship Demand
View full H-1B trends →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.
O*NET occupation profile
What this work involves
Advise and assist students and provide educational and vocational guidance services.
Common titles: Academic Advisor, Academic Counselor, Admissions Counselor, Career Counselor, College Counselor, Elementary School Counselor
Representative Tasks
- •Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
- •Counsel students regarding educational issues, such as course and program selection, class scheduling and registration, school adjustment, truancy, study habits, and career planning.
- •Provide crisis intervention to students when difficult situations occur at schools.
- •Counsel individuals or groups to help them understand and overcome personal, social, or behavioral problems affecting their educational or vocational situations.
- •Review transcripts to ensure that students meet graduation or college entrance requirements, and write letters of recommendation.
Detailed Work Activities
- •Complete documentation required by programs or regulations.
- •Counsel clients regarding educational or vocational issues.
- •Counsel clients regarding interpersonal issues.
- •Counsel clients or patients regarding personal issues.
- •Intervene in crisis situations to assist clients.
Tools & Technologies
Employment Projections & AI Exposure
Employment & Wage Trend
BLS OEWS, 2019–2025
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS). See /sources.
Sector Comparison
| Metric | This Career | Sector Average |
|---|---|---|
| AI Exposure | 11.8% | 4.1% |
| Outlook | Bright ↗ | 75% Bright |
| Median Salary | $64,330 | N/A |
| AI Resiliency | 88/100 | N/A |