Career Explorer Healthcare support
Human edge, growing
Healthcare support workers, all other
All healthcare support workers not listed separately.
Among the most resilient careers: more resilient than 83% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is low (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it moderate), and US jobs are projected to change by +4.8% by 2035, faster than average. The work leans on 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)
- $48,430
- Job growth to 2035
- +4.8%
- Openings a year
- 14,100
- People doing it (2025)
- 114,000
- Usual route in
- High school diploma
Where people already use AI for this work
- Maintain current knowledge in area of expertise
- Perform administrative or clerical activities
From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).
Work AI rarely helps with
- Maintain medical equipment or instruments
- Maintain health or medical records
- Administer therapeutic treatments
What the work looks like
- Clean, disinfect, or calibrate scopes or other endoscopic instruments according to manufacturer recommendations and facility standards.
- Collect specimens from patients, using standard medical procedures.
- Document clients' progress toward meeting established treatment objectives.
- Perform safety checks to verify proper equipment functioning.
- Maintain or repair endoscopic equipment.
From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.
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Also known as: Communication Assistant, Speech Pathologist Assistant, Speech-Language Pathologist Assistant (SLPA), Speech-Language Pathology Assistant (SLPA), Certified Endo Tech (Certified Endoscopy Technician), Certified Flexible Endoscope Reprocessor (CFER), Endoscopy Technician (Endoscopy Tech), GI Tech (Gastrointestinal Technician).
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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.