Every career, mapped for the AI era.
Search any job your child is curious about. See how much of the work AI can already do, whether employers are hiring more people into it, what it pays, and which human strengths it depends on. Or simply ask a question.
This year, 831 careers. Last year, 35.
We rebuilt the research from the ground up for 2026. It is still free, there is still no sign-up, and it will stay that way.
Six research teams, one page
Every career page joins research that normally lives in six different places.
- US Bureau of Labor StatisticsJobs, pay, growth to 2035, openings, the route in, and what drives demand
- O*NET, US Department of LaborEveryday tasks and the skills and abilities each job needs
- Microsoft ResearchWhere people already use AI at work, from 200,000 Copilot conversations
- AnthropicHow much of each job people already use AI for, and what robots can do
- OpenAI and the University of PennsylvaniaHow much of each job AI could do in theory, published in Science
- Felten, Raj and SeamansHow closely AI's abilities match the abilities each job relies on
To do this yourself you would download each dataset and match all 831 jobs by their government codes. We did that, and an independent check matched every career to the government figures.
A year is a long time in AI
Six findings from the past year, each checked in the original report. The change is fast, and there is still time to prepare.
of organisations worldwide use AI, up from 2023 to 2025.
Stanford HAI, AI Index, April 2026average pay premium for workers with AI skills, up in a single year.
PwC, AI Jobs Barometer, June 2026growth in employer demand for AI fluency, the ability to use and manage AI tools, in two years.
McKinsey Global Institute, November 2025fewer young workers (22 to 25) in AI-exposed jobs than if they had kept pace with less-exposed peers. The first rung is where change shows first.
Stanford Digital Economy Lab, August 2026Robots can already do 74% of physical tasks in limited settings, yet they are cost-competitive for just 0.3% of tasks today.
Anthropic, September 2026No significant effect on overall US employment or wages so far. That leaves time for families to plan.
The Budget Lab at Yale, May 2026What the new evidence changed
27 careers appear in both editions. Last year we leaned on what AI could do in theory; this year we can also see what people actually use it for at work. Here is how those careers moved against each other, and why.
Climbed
- 10th → 1st
The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects 29.5% more jobs by 2035, and AI barely touches the climbing and repair work.
- 6th → 2nd
Data centres are creating work here: BLS links rising demand to new data centres and grid upgrades.
- 20th → 9th
AI helps with research and presenting it, but planning and directing research is work AI rarely helps with. BLS expects 12.6% growth.
- 21st → 12th
The people who build AI: BLS expects 21.8% growth, driven partly by AI itself.
- 15th → 7th
AI helps with permits and paperwork, while directing the work on site stays a people job. BLS expects 9.1% growth.
Slipped
- 3rd → 16th
Much of the advising on courses and careers is work people already use AI for (Microsoft, 2025). BLS still expects schools to add counsellors.
- 5th → 21st
AI already helps prepare teaching materials, and BLS expects jobs to hold roughly flat. Assessing each child and planning their programme are work AI rarely helps with.
- 3rd → 9th
BLS expects nurse practitioners and physician assistants to take on more of the work. Nurse practitioners stay near the top, at 5th.
- 13th → 20th
AI helps with lesson materials and BLS expects little change in jobs. Assessing pupils and planning lessons are work AI rarely helps with.
Why are this year's scores lower? The 2026 index ranks every career against all 831, so a typical career now scores about 50. Compare positions, not last year's numbers. How we score
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Every dot is a career. Left to right shows how much of the work AI can already help with or do. Bottom to top shows whether US employers are expected to hire more people into it by 2035. Tap a dot, or a corner below, to explore.
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Where the evidence comes from
We read the original reports and use the published data, not summaries. Every figure on this page can be traced to one of these sources.
How we score careers
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