Visualizing The Automation Potential Of U.S. Jobs (Fast-Food Workers & Truckers Beware)
By Tyler Durden
WHO’S IN, WHO’S OUT?
The interactive visualization above charts specific careers on their automation potential (out of 100%) along with the hourly average wage of the job.
What is most interesting about the analysis is that automation potential doesn’t correlate with low-skill, low-wage jobs as much as one may think. While it’s true that the three million fast food workers across the country have an automation potential of 74%, and that heavy truck driving activities can be 69% automated, there are also great counter-examples: for example, only 7% of manual labor and 22% of janitorial activities could be automated.
Likewise, high-paying jobs are not necessarily robot-proof.
Doctors (23%), nurses (29%), and even CEOs (25%) all have significant amounts of their jobs that can be automated with current technology. Almost half (47%) of what pharmacists do can be done by a robo-pharmacist, and 72% of commercial pilot activities can be done through computers.
Not interested in having a robot fill your shoes? Mckinsey notes at the end of their analysis that both creativity and sensing emotion are extremely difficult to automate. Focus on building skills and competencies in these categories, and you’ll be just fine (for now, at least).
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