AI displacement pressure
4%
Very Low RiskEnrolled/Assistant nurse (excluding registered nurse)
Enrolled/Assistant nurse (excluding registered nurse) has 17% AI task overlap and 63% human bottleneck protection — lower risk than 78% of occupations in the live market. Current AI capabilities have limited overlap with core tasks.
Why This Score
17% of tasks overlap with current AI
63% human advantage from judgment & presence
56% demand buffer from the local labour market
AI usage 7pp below theoretical exposure
These factors interact with each other — the final score is not a simple sum of these bars.
How much AI overlaps with this job's tasks, offset by human advantages and local demand. Score stability: watch. How this works
Tasks AI can handle
With 17% AI task overlap (based on Felten AIOE, Anthropic Economic Index, and Eloundou GPT exposure), the Enrolled/Assistant nurse (excluding registered nurse) tasks most exposed include: diagnostic pattern recognition, medical literature synthesis, appointment scheduling, patient record summarization, and drug interaction checking.
What AI can't do here
At 63% human bottleneck protection, the tasks that remain hardest to automate for Enrolled/Assistant nurse (excluding registered nurse) include: patient examination, clinical judgment under uncertainty, empathetic communication, emergency decision-making, and informed consent processes.
Skills to focus on
Sources: Felten AIOE (2021), Anthropic Economic Index (2026), Eloundou GPT Exposure (2023), Pizzinelli et al. bottleneck model. Full methodology.
Role profile
How this role's work breaks down across key dimensions. This is a general profile, not an individual measurement.
Workflow dimensions (0 = low, 1 = high)
Singapore Now
Current labour market conditions and how they affect this role.
Cooling, but not collapsing. Vacancies and re-entry are softer, yet retrenchment remains low and hiring still exceeds resignations.
Vacancy
3.1%
↓ 3.1% YoY
Hiring
1.5%
vs 0.9% resign
Retrenchment
1.5
per 1,000 · low
Re-entry
67.7%
find work in 12mo· -5.3pp
Professionals, Managers, Executives & Technicians · 2025 Q4
Top Industries
Industry vacancy overlays use the latest published detailed cross-tab, which can lag the main labour monitor.
How this changes by career stage
Senior workers benefit from institutional knowledge and judgment that AI cannot replicate. Entry-level roles have higher task overlap with AI.
What You Can Do
Enrolled/Assistant nurse (excluding registered nurse) has some offset potential, but it depends on task redesign holding up in practice and on workers clearing the main switching frictions.
Published transition support
Related roles you could transition to
Similarity-basedCompare within Associate Professionals & Technicians
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Higher risk than 22% of occupations
Raw scores
AIOE -0.514 · θ 0.691 · C-AIOE -0.408
Stability
watch · Optimistic 3% · Pessimistic 7%
Score range (best/worst case)
Exposure 14–19% · Net risk 3.37–5.19%
Scoring basis
Not published. No scoring-basis metadata is available for this occupation.
Wage range (SGD/mo)
25th 3,344 · Median 4,904 · 75th 6,705
Evidence & sources
Data matching
direct · SSOC 32200
Real-world AI usage: -7% vs estimated
Data quality
84% · Matching 0.99 · Market data 0.70 · Freshness 0.80
Task-weighted shadow evidence is not active for this occupation yet.
AI overlap by data source
Weights: aioe 32% · anthropic 35% · eloundou 33%
Tools & offset factors
What helps
- A meaningful share of the work can likely be reorganized around AI rather than removed outright.
What could slow it down
- Current demand support is thin, so offsets may take longer to show up.
Worker profile & local context
- Vacancy rate is 3.1% and was essentially flat versus last quarter.
- Hiring read: recruitment is running above resignation (1.5% vs 0.9%).
- Retrenchment was low at 1.5 per 1,000 employees.
- 67.7% of retrenched workers re-entered employment within 12 months.
Worker profile
Gender mix
33% male / 67% femalePublished Singapore worker composition for the detailed occupation family 32 Health Associate Professionals.
Employment structure
Employee-heavy87% employees, 13% employers or self-employed workers.
Work arrangement
Mostly full-time9% part-time and 91% full-time in 2025.
Age profile
Mid-career heavy17% aged 15 to 29, 52% aged 30 to 49, and 31% aged 50 or older.
Qualification mix
Diploma-heavyDegree 37%; Diploma / professional qualification 35%.
Gross wage by sex
Female median 11% higherPublished June 2024 gross wage medians: male $4,446, female $4,942.
Where this work is concentrated
Top planning areas
Jurong West, Woodlands, Tampines22% of workers in this occupation group live in these three planning areas.
Residential concentration
Moderately clustered35% live across the top five planning areas in the 2020 Census.
Commute pattern
Longer commutesEstimated average commute 38.7 minutes. 36% take 46 minutes or more.
Frequently asked questions
Will AI replace Enrolled/Assistant nurse (excluding registered nurse)?
Enrolled/Assistant nurse (excluding registered nurse) has 17% AI task overlap and 63% human bottleneck protection — lower risk than 78% of occupations in the live market. Current AI capabilities have limited overlap with core tasks. Net displacement risk: 4% (Very Low). Median wage: SGD 4,904/month.
What is the AI risk score for Enrolled/Assistant nurse (excluding registered nurse)?
Enrolled/Assistant nurse (excluding registered nurse) has an AI displacement risk of 4%, rated Very Low. AI task overlap: 17%. Human advantage: 63%. Local demand buffer: 56%.
What career transitions are available for Enrolled/Assistant nurse (excluding registered nurse)?
Enrolled/Assistant nurse (excluding registered nurse) has modeled transition pathways to related occupations. The strongest adjacent pathway is Sonographer, based on skill and wage similarity (model-estimated). Transition scoring accounts for wage preservation, training ease, and destination quality.
How does Enrolled/Assistant nurse (excluding registered nurse) salary compare in the live market?
Enrolled/Assistant nurse (excluding registered nurse) earns a median gross wage of SGD 4,904/month in the live market (25th-75th percentile: SGD 3,344-6,705). This is 9% above median across all 562 scored occupations, and 19% above group median within Associate Professionals & Technicians occupations.