Headline risk
15%
Moderate RiskActuaries
AI displacement pressure score for United States AI Work Index, combining global AI task overlap with local wages, employment trends, and demand signals.
Why This Score
Share of job tasks that overlap with current AI capabilities
Median annual wage
Projected employment change over 10 years
Typical preparation needed for this occupation
Occupation profile
Analyze statistical data, such as mortality, accident, sickness, disability, and retirement rates and construct probability tables to forecast risk and liability for payment of future benefits. May ascertain insurance rates required and cash reserves necessary to ensure payment of future benefits.
Task evidence
100% weighted task match · 5% effective coverage
Scores combine AI task overlap, human advantages, and local demand. How it works
United States Now
Median Wage
USD 125,770
Employment 2024
33.6K
Projected Change (2024–34)
21.8%
Openings (2024–34)
2.4K
Wage distribution
Demand outlook
Employment of actuaries is projected to grow 22 percent from 2024 to 2034, much faster than the average for all occupations.
Role Profile
Tasks
- 1. Ascertain premium rates required and cash reserves and liabilities necessary to ensure payment of future benefits. AI use: 0%
- 2. Collaborate with programmers, underwriters, accounts, claims experts, and senior management to help companies develop plans for new lines of business or improvements to existing business. AI use: 0%
- 3. Analyze statistical information to estimate mortality, accident, sickness, disability, and retirement rates. AI use: 0%
- 4. Determine, or help determine, company policy, and explain complex technical matters to company executives, government officials, shareholders, policyholders, or the public. AI use: 0%
- 5. Design, review, and help administer insurance, annuity and pension plans, determining financial soundness and calculating premiums. AI use: 0%
- 6. Construct probability tables for events such as fires, natural disasters, and unemployment, based on analysis of statistical data and other pertinent information. AI use: 0%
Technologies
Requirements
Work context
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Source coverage
10/11 source families · O*NET 30.2 / OEWS 2024 / ORS 2025 / OOH 2025-08-28 / Projections 2024-34 / CPS 2025 / Anthropic task penetration
Data quality
Employment data available
Narrative & sources
Actuaries use mathematics, statistics, and financial theory to analyze the economic costs of risk and uncertainty.
Most actuaries work for insurance companies. Although most work full time in an office setting, some actuaries who work as consultants travel to meet with clients.
Actuaries typically need a bachelor’s degree to enter the occupation and must pass a series of exams to become certified. They must have a strong background in mathematics, statistics, and business.
The median annual wage for actuaries was $125,770 in May 2024.
Employment of actuaries is projected to grow 22 percent from 2024 to 2034, much faster than the average for all occupations.
Important context
This score measures structural AI displacement pressure, not actual job losses. Local wages and demand data are specific to United States AI Work Index; the underlying AI task overlap analysis is consistent across all countries.