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AI Automation Index
Will AI Replace Audiologists?
Task-level automation exposure for Audiologists: 22 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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41%
weighted task index
22 of 22 tasks scored
Median Salary
$95,780 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation
Employment Level
Low
13,660 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
+11.0%
employment change
600 openings a year · BLS line item
Pay by state
BLS OEWS publishes 49 state estimates for this occupation. Each is its own survey estimate, not the national median adjusted for local prices.
$75,200 – $133,110
Highest medians
Nevada $133,110
New Jersey $119,230
North Dakota $118,750
California $114,910
Alaska $114,170
Lowest medians
Louisiana $75,200
Oklahoma $76,880
West Virginia $79,990
Virginia $80,010
Mississippi $80,740
State figures come from the 29-1181 row in the May 2025 state panel. States where the estimate was suppressed or too small to publish are absent.
What the score is made of
Each task is mapped to its work activities, scored for AI automation potential, and weighted by how important those activities are to the job. These are the components.
Automation potential 41%
Importance-weighted mean of the scored tasks. This is the headline index.
Physical work 11%
Share of weighted tasks in hands-on or machine-operating work activities.
Judgment & influence 58%
Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.
Routine administration 10%
Share in documenting, recording, and administrative activities.
Rewritten by O*NET 0%
Share of weighted tasks O*NET rewrote in a recent update. Reported, not folded into the score.
Consequence of error 5/100
Low
O*NET's own rating of how serious an uncorrectable mistake would be here — respondents, not us. Deliberately not in the index: the score measures what AI can do with the task content, and multiplying it by stakes would be our judgment dressed as data.
Constituent Task Mix
22 tasks for this occupation, weighted by work-activity importance. Shares below are of total task weight, not task count.
High exposure (≥ 60% of the task is automatable) 17%
4 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 48%
11 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 35%
7 tasks
How would you survive?
Move your week away from the high-exposure tasks and toward the ones that need judgment. The simulator recalculates the index as you shift the mix.
Simulate Upskilling →Constituent Tasks
#18690 · Core · 62% automatable
Maintain patient records at all stages, including initial and subsequent evaluation and treatment activities.
interpersonal — Patient history requires live elicitation and judgment
Record patient medical histories.
#18673 · Core · 58% automatable
Evaluate hearing and balance disorders to determine diagnoses and courses of treatment.
visual inspection — Image interpretation assists; radiologist owns diagnosis
Analyze test data or images to inform diagnosis or treatment.
#18681 · Core · 10% automatable
Fit, dispense, and repair assistive devices, such as hearing aids.
physical manipulation — Hands-on fitting of prostheses to bodies
Adjust prostheses or other assistive devices.
#18678 · Core · 16% automatable
Administer hearing tests and examine patients to collect information on type and degree of impairment, using specialized instruments and electronic equipment.
physical manipulation — Diagnostic instruments applied to patients by hand
Test patient hearing. Examine patients to assess general physical condition. Operate diagnostic or therapeutic medical instruments or equipment.
#18686 · Core · 35% automatable
Monitor patients' progress and provide ongoing observation of hearing or balance status.
decision support — AI aids chart review; clinical observation of patient is human
Monitor patient progress or responses to treatments.
#18684 · Core · 30% automatable
Instruct patients, parents, teachers, or employers in communication strategies to maximize effective receptive communication.
interpersonal — Caregiver technique training is live and relational
Train patients, family members, or caregivers in techniques for managing disabilities or illnesses.
#18672 · Core · 30% automatable
Counsel and instruct patients and their families in techniques to improve hearing and communication related to hearing loss.
interpersonal — Caregiver technique training is live and relational
Train patients, family members, or caregivers in techniques for managing disabilities or illnesses.
#18688 · Core · 55% automatable
Refer patients to additional medical or educational services, if needed.
decision support — Clinical referral judgment needs licensed human accountability
Refer patients to other healthcare practitioners or health resources.
#18675 · Core · 75% automatable
Participate in conferences or training to update or share knowledge of new hearing or balance disorder treatment methods or technologies.
information retrieval — AI summarizes medical updates; human retains judgment
Maintain medical or professional knowledge.
#7870 · Core · 10% automatable
Examine and clean patients' ear canals.
visual inspection — Patient physical assessment is hands-on clinical work
Examine patients to assess general physical condition. Administer basic health care or medical treatments.
#18680 · Core · 55% automatable
Recommend assistive devices according to patients' needs or nature of impairments.
decision support — Assistive device recommendations need client-specific assessment
Recommend types of assistive devices.
#18682 · Core · 50% automatable
Advise educators or other medical staff on hearing or balance topics.
decision support — Clinical advice needs licensed accountability and context
Advise medical personnel regarding healthcare issues.
#18674 · Core · 80% automatable
Program and monitor cochlear implants to fit the needs of patients.
data analysis — Patient data entry largely automatable with review
Enter patient or treatment data into computers.
#7872 · Core · 28% automatable
Educate and supervise audiology students and health care personnel.
interpersonal — Provider training is clinical, hands-on, accountable
Train medical providers. Supervise patient care personnel.
#18677 · Core · 39% automatable
Plan and conduct treatment programs for patients' hearing or balance problems, consulting with educators, physicians, nurses, psychologists, speech-language pathologists, and other health care personnel, as necessary.
interpersonal — Treatment planning collaboration is accountable clinical work
Develop medical treatment plans. Collaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment.
#18685 · Core · 40% automatable
Work with multidisciplinary teams to assess and rehabilitate recipients of implanted hearing devices through auditory training and counseling.
interpersonal — Treatment planning collaboration is accountable clinical work
Collaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment.
#18676 · Core · 46% automatable
Conduct or direct research on hearing or balance topics and report findings to help in the development of procedures, technology, or treatments.
interpersonal — Medical research presentation needs human delivery
Conduct research to increase knowledge about medical issues. Present medical research reports.
#18689 · Core · 35% automatable
Perform administrative tasks, such as managing office functions and finances.
interpersonal — Healthcare operations accountability and staffing are human
Manage healthcare operations.
#18683 · Core · 62% automatable
Provide information to the public on hearing or balance topics.
text generation — Health messaging drafted by AI; public delivery human
Communicate health and wellness information to the public.
#18679 · Core · 40% automatable
Engage in marketing activities, such as developing marketing plans, to promote business for private practices.
interpersonal — Marketing healthcare services needs persuasion and trust
Merchandise healthcare products or services.
#18687 · Core · 34% automatable
Measure noise levels in workplaces and conduct hearing conservation programs in industry, military, schools, and communities.
interpersonal — Safety training content aided, live delivery human
Inspect work environments to ensure safety. Conduct health or safety training programs.
#7875 · Core · 43% automatable
Develop and supervise hearing screening programs.
decision support — Assessment methods drafted; clinical validation human
Develop health assessment methods or programs. Manage healthcare operations.
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How this was scored
- 1. Tasks. O*NET task statements for this occupation, from a release whose newest record is dated 08/2026.
- 2. Work activities. Each task maps to 1–5 Detailed Work Activities; each activity belongs to one of 41 Generalized Work Activities that O*NET rates for importance (1–5) in this occupation.
- 3. Automation potential. Every work activity carries one score for how far current AI can perform it end-to-end. Tasks inherit the mean of their activities.
- 4. Weighting. Task weight = 0.35 + 0.65 × (importance − 1)/4, scaled by how often the task is performed and by 0.7 for Supplemental tasks. Importance is the task's own O*NET rating where it exists (18,369 of 18,838 tasks); the rest inherit their work activities' importance. The index is the weighted mean.
Check: across the 910 occupations where O*NET also rates how far machine speed sets the pace, this index moves opposite to it (Spearman ρ = -0.49). The more a job is paced by equipment, the less of its task content AI can address — the relationship you would expect if the scoring is working.
Sources · O*NET 31.0 (task records to 08/2026) · BLS OEWS May 2025 · BLS projections 2025-2035 · rubric v2.1 · tasks for O*NET, not a forecast
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