Grows with AI

Actuaries

Analyze statistical data, such as mortality, accident, sickness, disability, and retirement rates and construct probability tables to forecast risk and liability for payment of future benefits. May ascertain insurance rates required and cash reserves necessary to ensure payment of future benefits.

AI Resistance Index 32 of 99

Changing faster than most: more resilient than 32% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is high (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it very high), and US jobs are projected to change by +9.2% by 2035, faster than average. The work leans on creative vision.

AI can help with many of the tasks, and demand is still growing. Being fluent with AI is the edge here.

Median pay (2025): $130,000
Job growth to 2035: +9.2%
Openings a year: 1,500
People doing it (2025): 31,200
Usual route in: Bachelor's degree, then long on-the-job training

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Where people already use AI for this work

Analyze health or medical data
Advise others on products or services
Advise others on legal or regulatory matters

From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).

Work AI rarely helps with

Manage budgets or finances
Communicate with others about business strategies
Develop organizational or program goals or objectives

What the work looks like

Analyze data to determine premium rates required and cash reserves and liabilities necessary to ensure payment of future benefits.
Analyze statistical information to estimate mortality, accident, sickness, disability, and retirement rates.
Design, review, and help administer insurance, annuity and pension plans, determining financial soundness and calculating premiums.
Collaborate with programmers, underwriters, accounts, claims experts, and senior management to help companies develop plans for new lines of business or improvements to existing business.
Provide advice to clients on a contract basis, working as a consultant.

From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.

What the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects

More of these jobs, as a greater emphasis on identifying, quantifying, and managing risks leads to greater demand for actuaries to analyze the financial costs of risks and uncertainty.

Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook

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Aerospace engineersGrows with AI, Index 38, +8.3%

Also known as: Actuarial Analyst, Actuary, Consulting Actuary, Pricing Actuary, Actuarial Associate, Actuarial Consultant, Health Actuary, Life Actuary.

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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.