AI displacement pressure
12%
Low RiskTeacher aide
Teacher aide has 34% AI task overlap and 56% human bottleneck protection — lower risk than 56% of occupations in the live market. Current AI capabilities have limited overlap with core tasks.
Why This Score
34% of tasks overlap with current AI
56% human advantage from judgment & presence
42% demand buffer from the local labour market
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 34% AI task overlap (based on Felten AIOE and ILO occupational exposure), the Teacher aide tasks most exposed include: generating lesson plans, creating quizzes and practice exercises, summarizing curricula, personalizing reading lists, and grading objective assessments.
What AI can't do here
At 56% human bottleneck protection, the tasks that remain hardest to automate for Teacher aide include: motivating students, adapting to emotional and social dynamics in the classroom, mentoring, handling behavioral issues, and assessing creative or nuanced work.
Skills to focus on
Sources: Felten AIOE (2021), ILO GenAI (2025), 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 are softer, yet retrenchment remains low and hiring still exceeds resignations.
Vacancy
3.1%
↓ 11.4% YoY
Hiring
2.6%
vs 1.6% resign
Retrenchment
1.5
per 1,000 · low
Re-entry
78.5%
find work in 12mo· -1.6pp
Clerical, Sales & Service Workers · 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
Teacher aide has some offset potential, but it depends on transition pathways holding up in practice and on workers clearing the main switching frictions.
Published transition support
Related roles you could transition to
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Higher risk than 44% of occupations
Raw scores
AIOE 0.452 · θ 0.683 · C-AIOE 0.362
Stability
watch · Optimistic 9% · Pessimistic 16%
Score range (best/worst case)
Exposure 21–49% · Net risk 6.90–17.25%
Scoring basis
Not published. No scoring-basis metadata is available for this occupation.
Wage range (SGD/mo)
25th 2,200 · Median 2,500 · 75th 3,130
Evidence & sources
Data matching
direct · SSOC 53120
Data quality
71% · Matching 1.00 · Market data 0.70 · Freshness 0.75
Capped at high · Final rating: medium · capped for sparse source coverage
Task-weighted shadow evidence is not active for this occupation yet.
AI overlap by data source
Weights: aioe 47% · ilo 53%
Conflicting data signals
Tools & offset factors
What helps
- Nearby moves and published transition support look reasonably strong.
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 fell by 0.2 points from last quarter.
- Hiring read: recruitment is running above resignation (2.6% vs 1.6%).
- Retrenchment was low at 1.5 per 1,000 employees.
- 78.5% of retrenched workers re-entered employment within 12 months.
Worker profile
Gender mix
15% male / 85% femalePublished Singapore worker composition for the detailed occupation family 53 Personal Care Workers.
Employment structure
Employee-heavy91% employees, 9% employers or self-employed workers.
Work arrangement
Part-time meaningful24% part-time and 76% full-time in 2025.
Age profile
Older-skewing17% aged 15 to 29, 32% aged 30 to 49, and 51% aged 50 or older.
Qualification mix
Non-degree heavySecondary 26%; Post-secondary 25%.
Gross wage by sex
Female median 14% lowerPublished June 2024 gross wage medians: male $2,893, female $2,484.
Where this work is concentrated
Top planning areas
Woodlands, Tampines, Yishun22% 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
Mid-range commutesEstimated average commute 33.8 minutes. 28% take 46 minutes or more.
Frequently asked questions
Will AI replace Teacher aide?
Teacher aide has 34% AI task overlap and 56% human bottleneck protection — lower risk than 56% of occupations in the live market. Current AI capabilities have limited overlap with core tasks. Net displacement risk: 12% (Low). Median wage: SGD 2,500/month.
What is the AI risk score for Teacher aide?
Teacher aide has an AI displacement risk of 12%, rated Low. AI task overlap: 34%. Human advantage: 56%. Local demand buffer: 42%.
What career transitions are available for Teacher aide?
Teacher aide has modeled transition pathways to related occupations. The strongest adjacent pathway is Flying instructor (except air force), based on skill and wage similarity (model-estimated). Transition scoring accounts for wage preservation, training ease, and destination quality.
How does Teacher aide salary compare in the live market?
Teacher aide earns a median gross wage of SGD 2,500/month in the live market (25th-75th percentile: SGD 2,200-3,130). This is 44% below median across all 562 scored occupations, and 16% below group median within Service & Sales Workers occupations.