Healthcare Practitioners

Clinical Laboratory Scientists

SOC 29-2010

Run and interpret the lab tests that most diagnoses depend on.

Median pay

$63k

$48k to $81k typical range

Outlook

Growing

23k openings / yr

Education

Bachelor's

AI displacement risk

Moderate

How much of this job AI may do instead of the person · our model, not a benchmark

Works with AI

0/100

AI alongside the person rather than instead of them

AI exposure

34th pct

More exposed than 34% of occupations · modeled estimate · 38th pct in Microsoft's data

Future-proof

59/100

Key skills

Lab technique
Analysis
Quality control
Instrumentation
Precision

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Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2024-2034). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.