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Changing shape
Tutors
Instruct individual students or small groups of students in academic subjects to support formal class instruction or to prepare students for standardized or admissions tests.
Changing faster than most: more resilient than 22% 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 -0.2% by 2035, expected to shrink. The work leans on emotional intelligence and creative vision.
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)
- $43,350
- Job growth to 2035
- -0.2%
- Openings a year
- 34,200
- People doing it (2025)
- 208,000
- Usual route in
- Some college
Where people already use AI for this work
- Teach academic or vocational subjects
- Prepare informational or instructional materials
- Provide support or encouragement to others
From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).
Work AI rarely helps with
- Assess student capabilities, needs, or performance
- Collaborate in the development of educational programs
- Schedule operational activities
What the work looks like
- Provide feedback to students, using positive reinforcement techniques to encourage, motivate, or build confidence in students.
- Review class material with students by discussing text, working solutions to problems, or reviewing worksheets or other assignments.
- Assess students' progress throughout tutoring sessions.
- Teach students study skills, note-taking skills, and test-taking strategies.
- Provide private instruction to individual or small groups of students to improve academic performance, improve occupational skills, or prepare for academic or occupational tests.
From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.
What the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects
- Fewer of these jobs, as online tools and digital tutors utilizing generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities reduce demand for tutors.
Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook
- Teaching assistants, except postsecondaryChanging shape, Index 40, -0.3%
- Self-enrichment teachersGrows with AI, Index 48, +3.5%
- ConciergesChanging shape, Index 23, +2.6%
- Preschool teachers, except special educationHuman edge, growing, Index 83, +4.5%
Also known as: Academic Coach, Academic Guidance Specialist, Professional Tutor, Tutor, Accounting Tutor, Finance Tutor, Grade School Tutor, Private Mathematics Tutor.
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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.