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Radio Hosts

SOC 27-4013

Host radio shows and conduct interviews for broadcast audiences.

The job
Median pay
$47k
$35k to $75k typical range
BLS figure for Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Declining
-7.6% projected
BLS figure for Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys
Openings a year
2k
BLS figure for Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys
Typical education
Bachelor's
Our model
AI displacement risk
Low
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
6/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
9th pct
More exposed than 9% of occupations · modeled estimate
Future-proof
37/100

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Key skills

Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
California1,6200.10.7×$60k~
New York1,4600.21.1×$81k
Indiana1,0400.32.4×$62k
Florida9900.10.7×$56k
Tennessee9700.32.2×$48k
Texas9600.10.5×$49k
Ohio9100.21.2×$42k
North Carolina8300.21.2×$48k
Pennsylvania8300.11.0×$52k
Illinois7700.10.9×$47k
All 51 states
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Minnesota7500.31.9×$44k
Michigan6500.11.1×$47k
Washington6200.21.3×$44k
Wisconsin5800.21.4×$41k
Georgia4900.10.7×$42k
Missouri4700.21.2×$45k
Virginia4600.10.8×$44k
Kansas4400.32.2×$35k
Arizona4100.10.9×$48k
Kentucky3400.21.2×$36k
Iowa3200.21.5×$37k
Colorado3100.10.8×$51k
Alabama3000.11.0×$39k
Arkansas3000.21.7×$36k
Oklahoma3000.21.3×$36k
Connecticut2900.21.3×$52k~
Maryland2900.10.8×$74k
Massachusetts2800.10.6×$60k
Nebraska2800.32.0×$45k
Oregon2400.10.9×$46k
South Dakota2300.53.7×$41k
Louisiana1900.10.7×$33k
New Jersey1900.00.3×$71k
New Mexico1900.21.6×$39k
Utah1900.10.8×$46k
North Dakota1800.43.1×$39k
Maine1700.31.9×$44k
Mississippi1600.11.0×$34k
Nevada1600.10.8×$60k
South Carolina1500.10.5×$31k
Hawaii1400.21.6×$51k
Montana1300.31.9×$35k
West Virginia1300.21.4×$35k
Vermont1100.42.6×$35k
Rhode Island900.21.3×$55k
Alaska800.21.8×$45k
Washington DC700.10.7×$77k~
New Hampshire700.10.8×$46k
Idaho500.10.4×$47k
Wyoming500.21.3×$37k
Delaware420.10.6×$45k~

Top metro areas

  1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ1,090 jobs · $125k median
  2. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA600 jobs
  3. Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN560 jobs · $48k median
  4. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN480 jobs · $49k median
  5. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA420 jobs · $45k median
  6. Bloomington, IN360 jobs · $67k median
  7. Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC340 jobs
  8. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL340 jobs · $70k median

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BLS does not publish this occupation on its own. Pay and outlook here are BLS's figures for Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys (SOC 27-3011), the occupation it is grouped with, so the real figures for this job could sit either side of them. Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.