Career Explorer Education
Changing shape
Teaching assistants, except postsecondary
In the middle of the pack: more resilient than 40% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is moderate (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it high), and US jobs are projected to change by -0.3% by 2035, expected to shrink. 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)
- $36,780
- Job growth to 2035
- -0.3%
- Openings a year
- 176,000
- People doing it (2025)
- 1.5 million
- Usual route in
- Some college
Where people already use AI for this work
- Monitor individual behavior or performance
- Prepare informational or instructional materials
- Teach academic or vocational subjects
From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).
Work AI rarely helps with
- Maintain operational records
- Set up classrooms, facilities, educational materials, or equipment
- Distribute materials, supplies, or resources
Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook
- Preschool teachers, except special educationHuman edge, growing, Index 83, +4.5%
- Self-enrichment teachersGrows with AI, Index 48, +3.5%
- Community health workersGrows with AI, Index 80, +12.7%
- First-line supervisors of entertainment and recreation workers, except gambling servicesGrows with AI, Index 57, +5.3%
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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.