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Lower estimated automation risk
Why it fits
Uses performance expertise for drama instruction, critique, curriculum, and student coaching.
Why it fits
Directly reuses audition, performance assessment, casting, script interpretation, and production knowledge.
Why it fits
Applies performance, rehearsal, blocking, story, and production workflow knowledge with more coordination responsibility.
Why it fits
Uses entertainment-industry knowledge, performer needs, networking, negotiation, and career-management context.
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We rate jobs using four factors. These are:
- Chance of being automated
- Job growth
- Wages
- Volume of available positions
These are some key things to think about when job hunting.
Risk & user votes
Calculated automation risk
Low Risk (21-40%): This occupation has a lower risk of full replacement by AI, software, or robotic systems. Some tasks may be automated or assisted, but the role usually still relies on human judgement, communication, responsibility, physical adaptability, or practical decision-making.
More information on what this score is, and how it is calculated is available here.
Human strengths important in this job
These are human abilities and work contexts that are important in this occupation. They may help explain why parts of the role are harder to replace end-to-end, but they are not the only inputs into the automation score.
Thinking creatively
Very importantWhy this matters
Working directly with the public
Very importantWhy this matters
Social perceptiveness
Quite importantWhy this matters
Critical thinking
Quite importantWhy this matters
What users think
Based on 2,246 votes
Our visitors have voted they are unsure if this occupation will be automated. However, employees may be able to find reassurance in the automated risk level we have generated, which shows 24% chance of automation.
What do you think the risk of automation is?
What is the likelihood that Actors will be replaced by robots or artificial intelligence within the next 20 years?
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Pay & outlook
Growth
The number of 'Actors' job openings is expected to rise 0.3% by 2034
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Total employment, and estimated job openings
Updated projections are due 09-2025.
Volume
As of 2024 there were 38,800 people employed as 'Actors' within the United States.
This represents around < 0.001% of the employed workforce across the country
Put another way, around 1 in 3 thousand people are employed as 'Actors'.
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Job description
Play parts in stage, television, radio, video, or film productions, or other settings for entertainment, information, or instruction. Interpret serious or comic role by speech, gesture, and body movement to entertain or inform audience. May dance and sing.
O*NET-SOC code: 27-2011.00
What people are saying (120)
It's never been easy to be any kind of artist, but now that companies are finding new ways to circumvent paying people their due wages, it's only going to get harder.
But no, I searched "comedian" and it showed "actor".
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