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BLS OEWS

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, the source of the median wage and employment figures shown on occupation pages.

What this means in practice

OEWS is the federal government's employer-survey estimate of what occupations pay and how many people they employ, by area and industry. displacement.ai uses its national median wages as the wage context behind every occupation's wage vulnerability and wage preservation calculations.

Wage figures on the site are historical labor-market measures, not AI forecasts — a $40,080 median for Data Entry Keyers describes the recent labor market, not what the role will pay after automation. The methodology page tracks OEWS ingestion status explicitly rather than silently substituting synthetic numbers.

In the data

See this term in the occupation data

These published occupation pages show bls oews in action — with task-level exposure, automation and augmentation scores, wage context, and transition pathways.

SOC 43-9021

Data Entry Keyers

Routine structured entry, duplicate checks, and record transfer are highly exposed to direct automation. The strongest transition path moves workers from keystroke volume into data quality, exception handling, and workflow support.

Exposure
92
Automation
78%
Augment
18%
SOC 13-2011

Accountants and Auditors

Transaction coding, reconciliation review, and first-draft reporting are increasingly handled by AI inside accounting platforms. Advisory judgment, controls ownership, attestation, and client communication remain the durable core, so the role is reshaping toward review and assurance rather than disappearing.

Exposure
67
Automation
38%
Augment
62%
SOC 47-2111

Electricians

Hands-on installation, safety, code compliance, and field troubleshooting make direct AI replacement unlikely, while estimating, diagnostics, and documentation can improve with tools.

Exposure
18
Automation
7%
Augment
31%