Career Explorer Education
Changing shape
Educational instruction and library workers, all other
All educational instruction and library workers not listed separately.
Changing faster than most: more resilient than 26% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is high (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it high), and US jobs are projected to change by +1.8% by 2035, slower than average. The work leans on creative vision and emotional intelligence.
AI can do many of the tasks, and hiring is expected to grow slower than average or to shrink. The job is likely to change, so build the human parts of it.
- Median pay (2025)
- $50,890
- Job growth to 2035
- +1.8%
- Openings a year
- 12,700
- People doing it (2025)
- 137,000
- Usual route in
- Bachelor's degree
Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook
- Preschool teachers, except special educationHuman edge, growing, Index 83, +4.5%
- Career/technical education teachers, middle schoolChanging shape, Index 33, -0.5%
- Special education teachers, preschoolChanging shape, Index 45, +2.4%
- Teaching assistants, postsecondaryChanging shape, Index 32, +2.7%
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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.