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AI Automation Index
Will AI Replace Marriage and Family Therapists?
Task-level automation exposure for Marriage and Family Therapists: 17 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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44%
weighted task index
17 of 17 tasks scored
Median Salary
$66,940 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation
Employment Level
Medium
66,740 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
+13.5%
employment change
6,900 openings a year · BLS line item
Pay by state
BLS OEWS publishes 45 state estimates for this occupation. Each is its own survey estimate, not the national median adjusted for local prices.
$37,870 – $141,960
Highest medians
Hawaii $141,960
New Jersey $92,150
Georgia $91,550
Oregon $91,520
Connecticut $86,250
Lowest medians
Wisconsin $37,870
South Dakota $44,870
Texas $46,300
Tennessee $46,700
Montana $46,960
State figures come from the 21-1013 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 44%
Importance-weighted mean of the scored tasks. This is the headline index.
Physical work 0%
Share of weighted tasks in hands-on or machine-operating work activities.
Judgment & influence 67%
Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.
Routine administration 12%
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 21/100
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
17 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) 12%
2 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 62%
11 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 26%
4 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 →Emerging & rewritten tasks
Tasks O*NET added or rewrote for this occupation in its recent updates (05/2025 – 08/2026), with who proposed them. Additions are not in the scored task inventory — they are new work O*NET is still measuring, so they appear here and nowhere in the index. A Revision replaces a task that is scored, which is why only those move the "Rewritten by O*NET" share.
- New 08/2026 · Occupational Expert
Determine which family members or significant others should attend group therapy sessions.
Constituent Tasks
#9184 · Core · 42% automatable
Ask questions that will help clients identify their feelings and behaviors.
interpersonal — Personal counseling needs live emotional presence and accountability
Counsel clients or patients regarding personal issues.
#9186 · Core · 28% automatable
Encourage individuals and family members to develop and use skills and strategies for confronting their problems in a constructive manner.
interpersonal — Teaching life skills to families needs human modeling
Teach life skills or strategies to clients or their families.
#20232 · Core · 40% automatable
Develop and implement individualized treatment plans addressing family relationship problems, destructive patterns of behavior, and other personal issues.
decision support — AI drafts plans; clinician assesses and owns treatment
Develop treatment plans for patients or clients.
#9187 · Core · 78% automatable
Maintain case files that include activities, progress notes, evaluations, and recommendations.
text generation — Maintain client records; human verifies accuracy
Maintain client records.
#9185 · Core · 30% automatable
Counsel clients on concerns, such as unsatisfactory relationships, divorce and separation, child rearing, home management, or financial difficulties.
interpersonal — Interpersonal counseling needs human relationship
Counsel clients regarding interpersonal issues.
#9190 · Core · 55% automatable
Determine whether clients should be counseled or referred to other specialists in such fields as medicine, psychiatry, or legal aid.
decision support — Eligibility judgment from records, but accountability stays human
Evaluate characteristics of individuals to determine needs or eligibility. Refer clients to community or social service programs.
#9197 · Core · 28% automatable
Supervise other counselors, social service staff, and assistants.
interpersonal — Client/patient service supervision is relational
Supervise workers providing client or patient services.
#20233 · Core · 42% automatable
Confer with other counselors, doctors, and professionals to analyze individual cases and to coordinate counseling services.
interpersonal — Client assessment collaboration is professional judgment
Collaborate with other professionals to assess client needs or plan treatments.
#24023 · Core · 39% automatable
Diagnose mental and emotional disorders in clients.
interpersonal — Client info gathering needs human relationship and trust
Collect information about clients. Diagnose medical conditions. Diagnose neural or psychological disorders.
#9191 · Core · 38% automatable
Confer with clients to develop plans for posttreatment activities.
interpersonal — Treatment discussions require clinical presence
Confer with clients to discuss treatment plans or progress.
#9188 · Core · 38% automatable
Collect information about clients, using techniques such as testing, interviewing, discussion, or observation.
interpersonal — Client info gathering needs human relationship and trust
Collect information about clients. Interview clients to gather information about their backgrounds, needs, or progress.
#9195 · Core · 44% automatable
Gather information from doctors, schools, social workers, juvenile counselors, law enforcement personnel, and others to make recommendations to courts for resolution of child custody or visitation disputes.
interpersonal — Client info gathering needs human relationship and trust
Collect information about clients. Collaborate with other professionals to assess client needs or plan treatments.
#9198 · Core · 34% automatable
Provide family counseling and treatment services to inmates participating in substance abuse programs.
interpersonal — Personal counseling needs live emotional presence and accountability
Counsel clients or patients with substance abuse issues. Counsel family members of clients or patients. Counsel clients on mental health or personal achievement. Counsel clients or patients regarding personal issues.
#9196 · Core · 48% automatable
Provide public education and consultation to other professionals or groups regarding counseling services, issues, and methods.
text generation — Program info drafted; public presentation human
Present social services program information to the public. Lead classes or community events. Advise others on social or educational issues.
#9193 · Core · 49% automatable
Follow up on results of counseling programs and clients' adjustments to determine effectiveness of programs.
data analysis — Outcome data analysis with human interpretation
Monitor clients to evaluate treatment progress. Evaluate the effectiveness of counseling or educational programs.
#9199 · Core · 72% automatable
Write evaluations of parents and children for use by courts deciding divorce and custody cases, testifying in court if necessary.
text generation — Reports/evaluations drafted; human owns judgment
Write reports or evaluations.
#9194 · Core · 50% automatable
Provide instructions to clients on how to obtain help with legal, financial, and other personal issues.
decision support — Resource navigation aided by AI; human owns case
Help clients get needed services or resources.
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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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