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Uses negotiation, policy interpretation, workforce issues, executive communication, documentation, and dispute resolution.
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Calculated automation 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.
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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
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Managing and developing people
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Negotiation
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Social perceptiveness
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Decision-making and problem solving
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Coaching and developing others
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Communicating with people outside the organization
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Developing objectives and strategies
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Assisting and caring for others
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Active learning
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Operations analysis
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What users think
Based on 521 votes
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 3% chance of automation.
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What is the likelihood that Chief Executives will be replaced by robots or artificial intelligence within the next 20 years?
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Pay & outlook
Wages
In 2024, the median annual wage for Chief Executives was $206,420 ($99 per hour).
The median annual wage for Chief Executives was 317.0% higher than the national median annual wage, which stood at $49,500.
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Growth
The number of 'Chief Executives' job openings is expected to rise 4.3% by 2034
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Total employment, and estimated job openings
Updated projections are due 09-2025.
Volume
As of 2024 there were 211,850 people employed as 'Chief Executives' within the United States.
This represents around 0.14% of the employed workforce across the country
Put another way, around 1 in 727 people are employed as 'Chief Executives'.
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Job description
Determine and formulate policies and provide overall direction of companies or private and public sector organizations within guidelines set up by a board of directors or similar governing body. Plan, direct, or coordinate operational activities at the highest level of management with the help of subordinate executives and staff managers.
O*NET-SOC code: 11-1011.00
What people are saying (23)
Overall I suspect that CEOs will work together with politicians to tinker with the legal and political environment in a way that ensures everyone else’s job is automated before any risk comes to their own.
A.I excels at this kind of analysis and decision making. Very few CEO's engage with their staff on a personal level, something AI's are bad at doing.
In short: CEO's should be busy making hay, the sky looks overcast.
As the primary job requirements are analyzing the market and networking, skills that computers hold significantly in advantage over humans, it's unlikely this job will last much longer.
2) The high-risk jobs will soon become automated and no longer exist.
3) Job growth would be surpassed by the oversaturation of remaining jobs. Few new job fields will open or boom, except perhaps, the robotics field.
4) This could likely lead to mass unemployment and under-employment, resulting in poverty. Companies may then have few buyers for their products and services.
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