Sector baselines · Research consensus
AI displacement risk, sector by sector
Baselines for 18 sectors covering 932 occupations. The ranking below is the obvious way to read this. It is also the one that tells you least about any particular job.
The gap between the most and least exposed sector is 42 points. Inside media & creative alone, roles run from 8 to 68, a 60 point spread in one field, and 5 of the 18 sectors are internally wider than the gap between sectors. Each sector page is built to show where its own roles actually land.
| Sector | Average | Jobs |
|---|---|---|
| Technology | 55 | 38 |
| Finance & Banking | 54 | 17 |
| Administration | 52 | 52 |
| Sales & Marketing | 50 | 22 |
| Business & Operations | 47 | 33 |
| Education | 39 | 66 |
| Research & Science | 39 | 65 |
| Management | 37 | 61 |
| Media & Creative | 37 | 41 |
| Engineering | 36 | 59 |
| Social Services | 33 | 15 |
| Hospitality | 24 | 16 |
| Personal Services | 24 | 31 |
| Public Sector / Government | 23 | 27 |
| Healthcare | 22 | 114 |
| Transportation | 20 | 53 |
| Manufacturing | 19 | 110 |
| Construction & Trades | 13 | 112 |
Sectors without a page yet
A sector needs 15 published occupations before it gets its own baseline. Below that the average moves too much on one new study to be worth quoting. These fields are still scored and every occupation in them is published individually; they just do not have a page of their own yet.
Agriculture (13) · Facilities & Services (9) · Legal (7)
Reading these numbers
Each sector average is the mean of its published occupation scores, and each of those aggregates published academic and industry estimates for that role. They are baselines for the typical version of a job, not predictions about any individual.
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Informational guidance based on published research, not professional career or financial advice. Scores update as new research is ingested.