About / Job Risk Index
Headlines about AI and jobs swing between panic and denial. Job Risk Index replaces both with one clear score per profession, an expected timeline, and the skills worth building next — whether you are already in the role or deciding to enter it.
Every profile answers the same four questions: how exposed is the work, when does change arrive, what does the job market signal, and which skills keep you valuable. Scores and derivation rules are documented on the methodology page.
The same data serves both readers: if you are in the profession, the index tells you what to reinforce; if you are choosing one, a low score reads as a long-term bet and a high one as a role to enter with an automation-aware skill set.
Headcounts and pay come from the BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics; tasks, skills and how to enter a profession come from O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database; and the automation signal behind each score comes from the Anthropic Economic Index. On top of those official feeds we run our own pipeline: a weekly intake of live job postings that we collect, classify and verify in-house — the demand series, salary signals and adoption trends on this site come from that dataset, not from a static file.
Every profile lists its sources with links. Nothing is published without a traceable source, and each profile shows the date it was last updated.
A profession without an official occupation anchor does not get fabricated preparation steps. A demand series without enough signal is hidden, not drawn. FAQ answers are generated from the profile's own data and must pass a fidelity gate before they ship.
The risk score is produced by our data pipeline — official research plus a weekly intake of live postings — and the derivation rule is documented on the methodology page, never edited per profession. The dataset refreshes weekly.
Editorial copy is drafted with AI assistance and audited by a human editor (G. Roman Aaron) before it stays published. AI is a tool in the pipeline, never the source of the data.
Job Risk Index is built and edited by G. Roman Aaron. Every score, list and review passes through a human check before it is published — you can reach the editor directly on LinkedIn. LinkedIn profile →