Teaching Assistants, Preschool, Elementary, Middle, and Secondary School
(Except Special Education)

Moderate Risk
49%

Where Would You Like to Go Next?

Share your results with friends and family.
Get results for another job Compare to another job

Or, Explore This Profession in Greater Detail...

Vote Comments (6)
AUTOMATION RISK
CALCULATED
56%
(Moderate Risk)
POLLING
42%
(Moderate Risk, Based on 173 votes)
Average: 49%
LABOR DEMAND *
GROWTH
-0.6%
by year 2033
WAGES
$35,550
or $17.09 per hour
Volume
1,337,320
as of 2023

Employment data isn't available specifically for this occupation from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, so we are using the data from Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary.

SUMMARY
What does this snowflake show?
The Snowflake is a visual summary of the five badges: Automation Risk (calculated), Risk (polled), Growth, Wages and Volume. It gives you an instant snapshot of an occupations profile. The colour of the Snowflake relates to its size. The better the occupation scores in relation to others, the larger and greener the Snowflake becomes.
JOB SCORE
3.8/10
What's this?
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.

People also viewed

Computer Programmers Lawyers Actors Graphic Designers Accountants and Auditors

Calculated automation risk

56% (Moderate Risk)

Moderate Risk (41-60%): Occupations with a moderate risk of automation usually involve routine tasks but still require some human judgment and interaction.

More information on what this score is, and how it is calculated is available here.

Some quite important qualities of the job are difficult to automate:

  • Assisting and Caring for Others

  • Social Perceptiveness

User poll

42% chance of full automation within the next two decades

Our visitors have voted they are unsure if this occupation will be automated. This assessment is further supported by the calculated automation risk level, which estimates 56% chance of automation.

What do you think the risk of automation is?

What is the likelihood that Teaching Assistants, Preschool, Elementary, Middle, and Secondary School, Except Special Education will be replaced by robots or artificial intelligence within the next 20 years?

Sentiment

The following graph is shown where there are enough votes to produce meaningful data. It displays user poll results over time, providing a clear indication of sentiment trends.

Sentiment over time (yearly)

Growth

Slow growth relative to other professions.

The number of 'Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary' job openings is expected to decline 0.6% by 2033

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

Wages

Very low paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary' was $35,550, or $17 per hour

'Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary' were paid 26.0% lower than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Volume

Significantly greater range of job opportunities compared to other professions

As of 2023 there were 1,337,320 people employed as 'Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary' within the United States.

This represents around 0.9% of the employed workforce across the country

Put another way, around 1 in 113 people are employed as 'Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary'.

Job description

Assist a preschool, elementary, middle, or secondary school teacher with instructional duties. Serve in a position for which a teacher has primary responsibility for the design and implementation of educational programs and services.

SOC Code: 25-9042.00

Comments (6)

Leave a comment
K. Joseph (Low)
09 Aug 2025 16:26
I voted low because the position is almost like caretaking. While AI can help in duties like this, it can not make choices based on the needs of individual students and teachers.
cheeeeeeeeeee (Low)
17 Dec 2024 22:04
children are unpredictable. over my school career i have heard thirteen separate children shout "parkour!" and jump off things. a robot would DIE
Me
04 Aug 2024 22:15
I see a dark dystopian look for this in the future maybe like 100 years
Riley (Low)
28 Nov 2023 23:56
Well they have to deal with children. And sometimes it can be hard.
Aldrin Jon Madamba (Uncertain)
17 Aug 2022 14:53
Besides time, another key element of effective professional development for 21st-century teaching is the provision of appropriate materials and activities.

Teachers learn most effectively when the training activities involve actual teaching materials. Additionally, activities that are school-based and integrated into the daily teaching work of teachers prove to be more impactful.

Furthermore, the pedagogy of professional development should be active and require teachers to learn in ways that reflect how they should teach their pupils. Like students, teachers are less likely to change their practice as a result of lower-order learning activities that occur via presentation and the memorization of new knowledge.

Professional development is also more effective if teachers from the same school, department, or grade-level participate collectively.
Naba (No chance)
15 Jul 2022 12:46
Teaching is not just a job. It's work to build a generation with empathy.

However, robots have no empathy...for now.
Leave a reply about this occupation
0/8000