Career Explorer Business and finance
Grows with AI
Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists
Conduct programs of compensation and benefits and job analysis for employer. May specialize in specific areas, such as position classification and pension programs.
Changing faster than most: more resilient than 27% 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 +6.0% by 2035, faster than average.
AI can help with many of the tasks, and demand is still growing. Being fluent with AI is the edge here.
- Median pay (2025)
- $78,210
- Job growth to 2035
- +6.0%
- Openings a year
- 9,000
- People doing it (2025)
- 118,000
- Usual route in
- Bachelor's degree
Where people already use AI for this work
- Advise others on business or operational matters
- Evaluate programs, practices, or processes
- Analyze business or financial data
From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).
Work AI rarely helps with
- Analyze data to improve operations
- Direct organizational operations, activities, or procedures
- Develop organizational policies, systems, or processes
What the work looks like
- Administer employee insurance, pension, and savings plans, working with insurance brokers and plan carriers.
- Ensure company compliance with federal and state laws, including reporting requirements.
- Develop and administer compensation programs, such as merit or incentive pay.
- Research employee benefit and health and safety practices, and recommend changes or modifications to existing policies.
- Evaluate job positions, determining classification, exempt or non-exempt status, and salary.
From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.
Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook
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Also known as: Benefits Analyst, Benefits Specialist, Compensation Analyst, Compensation Specialist, Benefits Consultant, Compensation and Benefits Analyst, Compensation and Benefits Specialist, Compensation Consultant.
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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.