Career Explorer Healthcare (clinical)
Human edge, growing
Chiropractors
Assess, treat, and care for patients by manipulation of spine and musculoskeletal system. May provide spinal adjustment or address sacral or pelvic misalignment.
More resilient than most: more resilient than 78% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is moderate (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it moderate), and US jobs are projected to change by +8.7% by 2035, faster than average. The work leans on ethical judgement and emotional intelligence.
AI struggles with much of this work, and US employers are expected to hire more people into it than average.
- Median pay (2025)
- $79,200
- Job growth to 2035
- +8.7%
- Openings a year
- 2,600
- People doing it (2025)
- 61,700
- Usual route in
- Doctorate or professional degree
Where people already use AI for this work
- Advise patients or clients on medical issues
- Analyze health or medical data
- Assist others to access additional services or resources
From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).
Work AI rarely helps with
- Examine people or animals to assess health conditions or physical characteristics
- Collect information about patients or clients
- Maintain health or medical records
What the work looks like
- Perform a series of manual adjustments to the spine or other articulations of the body to correct the musculoskeletal system.
- Obtain and record patients' medical histories.
- Diagnose health problems by reviewing patients' health and medical histories, questioning, observing, and examining patients and interpreting x-rays.
- Evaluate the functioning of the neuromuscularskeletal system and the spine using systems of chiropractic diagnosis.
- Maintain accurate case histories of patients.
From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.
What the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects
- More of these jobs, as growing demand for chiropractic treatment, due to its growing popularity and recognition as a valid nonopioid approach to manage pain, will result in increased demand for chiropractors.
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Also known as: Chiropractic Doctor (DC), Chiropractic Neurologist, Chiropractic Physician.
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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.