Career Explorer Business and finance
Grows with AI
Financial risk specialists
Analyze and measure exposure to credit and market risk threatening the assets, earning capacity, or economic state of an organization. May make recommendations to limit risk.
Changing faster than most: more resilient than 38% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is very high (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it very high), and US jobs are projected to change by +7.4% by 2035, faster than average. The work leans on ethical judgement and 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)
- $117,330
- Job growth to 2035
- +7.4%
- Openings a year
- 4,800
- People doing it (2025)
- 66,000
- Usual route in
- Bachelor's degree
Where people already use AI for this work
- Develop operational or technical procedures or standards
- Provide information to guests, clients, or customers
- Analyze business or financial data
From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).
Work AI rarely helps with
- Analyze business or financial risks
- Monitor financial data or activities
- Develop financial or business plans
Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook
- Chemical engineersGrows with AI, Index 54, +4.7%
- Air traffic controllersChanging shape, Index 52, +1.7%
- Financial managersGrows with AI, Index 43, +9.7%
- Medical dosimetristsGrows with AI, Index 51, +5.0%
Also known as: Analyst, Risk Analyst, Risk Specialist, Securities Analyst, Equity Research Analyst, Risk Manager.
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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.