Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary

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Job Score (higher is better):

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

10% (Minimal Risk)

Minimal Risk (0-20%): This occupation appears difficult to replace end-to-end with current or near-future automation, including AI software and robotics. Roles in this range usually depend on human judgement, creativity, care, leadership, specialist expertise, or adapting to messy real-world situations. AI and machines may still change parts of the work, but the occupation is likely to remain a distinct human role.

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 important
Why this matters
Coming up with original ideas and designs—creating new concepts, products, systems, or artistic work. This kind of open-ended invention and taste-based judgment is harder to automate end-to-end than routine, rule-based tasks.
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Decision-making and problem solving

Very important
Why this matters
Analyze information, weigh tradeoffs, and choose the best solution—especially when situations are ambiguous, high-stakes, or have real-world consequences.
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Active learning

Very important
Why this matters
Keeps learning from new information and applying it to make better decisions now and in the future, especially when situations change.
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Education and training expertise

Very important
Why this matters
Designing and delivering instruction—adapting lessons to different learners and measuring whether training actually works.
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Assisting and caring for others

Quite important
Why this matters
Provide hands-on help, emotional support, or personal care to people—work that depends on empathy, trust, and responding to individual needs in the moment.
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Social perceptiveness

Quite important
Why this matters
Noticing others’ emotions and reactions in the moment and adjusting what you say or do based on why they’re responding that way.
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Coordinating others’ work

Quite important
Why this matters
Bringing people together, assigning tasks, and keeping a group aligned so work gets done.
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Communicating with people outside the organization

Quite important
Why this matters
Represents the organization to customers, the public, or government—handling questions, concerns, and relationship-building through conversations, writing, calls, or email.
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Consulting and advising others

Quite important
Why this matters
Provide guidance and expert advice to managers or teams on technical, system, or process decisions—explaining options, tradeoffs, and recommended actions.
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What users think

Based on 113 votes

21% chance of full automation within the next two decades

Our visitors have voted there's a low chance this occupation will be automated. This assessment is further supported by the calculated automation risk level, which estimates 10% chance of automation.

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What is the likelihood that Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary will be replaced by robots or artificial intelligence within the next 20 years?

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Pay & outlook

Wages

High paid relative to other professions

In 2024, the median annual wage for Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary was $80,190 ($39 per hour).

The median annual wage for Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary was 62.0% higher than the national median annual wage, which stood at $49,500.

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Wages over time

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Growth

Slow growth relative to other professions.

The number of 'Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary' job openings is expected to rise 1.7% by 2034

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Total employment, and estimated job openings

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the period between 2023 and 2033
Updated projections are due 09-2025.

Volume

Greater range of job opportunities compared to other professions

As of 2024 there were 97,890 people employed as 'Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary' within the United States.

This represents around 0.06% of the employed workforce across the country

Put another way, around 1 in 1 thousand people are employed as 'Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary'.

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What people are saying (7)

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Person (Moderate)
03 Sep 2024 04:12
Give them a body to operate around and they can do basically anything if you teach them right
Donald Jenius Trump, Former and Present Supreme Overlord of the Glorious United States of America
14 Mar 2024 11:44
I am unable to find how this site determines the calculated risk of the full automation of a job. Are you just pulling these percentages out of nowhere or what? What info are you using? If someone knows where this information is, then please let me know.
Admin
14 Mar 2024 13:21
Please see here:

https://willrobotstakemyjob.com/about-our-calculations

Hope this helps.
Jeff (No chance)
09 Jun 2023 13:38
Music and drama requires spirit as well as intelligence to touch other humans.
Mario (No chance)
01 Jun 2023 11:19
A complex task that requires a lot of interaction and capturing of the other's intentions that are not trivial to express.
The truth
07 Apr 2023 16:52
This website is trash and a misleading resource without any real objective view on things going on... just delete this domain and start doing something useful for a change... stop ruining it for naive young folks who think surgeons will be replaced in 10 years because you did "statistics" using 10 gamers who didn't finish school that are giving their opinion here without any restriction on credentials...
Max
06 Mar 2024 10:26
What are you on about, this website rates Surgeons as 0% risk
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Job description

Teach courses in drama, music, and the arts including fine and applied art, such as painting and sculpture, or design and crafts. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

O*NET-SOC code: 25-1121.00