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Athletes and Sports Competitors
Also filed here: Athlete, Cricketer, Footballer, Sportsperson
Mostly untouched
AI barely touches this work so far. The BLS expects 5.5% more of these jobs by 2035, faster than the 3.5% average.
- Rank
- #378 of 785 jobs, by how much of the work AI does
- US jobs, 2025 to 2035
- +5.5% All jobs: +3.5%
- Median US pay
- $66,710 a year, 2025
- People doing it
- 22,900 in the US, with about 2,200 openings a year
The work, 4 activities
The job description, marked up.
Every activity in this job, the biggest first. Tap a line for the evidence.
- deleAI does this
- +AIAI helps
- stetStill yours
AI helps with this: Perform athletic activities for fitness, competition, or artistic purposes66%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 1,062 conversations, and it got them there 90% of the time.
Still yours: Evaluate personnel capabilities or performance16%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI does this: Promote products, services, or programs11%
AI performed this in about 1 in 117 Copilot conversations and completed it 92% of the time.
AI does this: Coach others7%
AI performed this in about 1 in 183 Copilot conversations and completed it 87% of the time.
2025 to 2035
Ten years from now.
For every 100 of these jobs in 2025, the BLS projects 106 in 2035. Across all US jobs, about 104.
About 2,200 openings a year, from growth and from people who retire or move on.
Nearby
Where your skills travel.
Jobs that share the most work with this one, where AI does less of it.
The wire
On the wire.
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deleAI does this. In US Bing Copilot conversations from January to September 2024, AI itself performed the activity, completed it and made a real difference often enough to count.
+AIAI helps. People brought the activity to AI as their own goal, and it usually got them there.
stetStill yours. It barely shows up in AI use, AI rarely finishes it, or in this job it needs hands.
Shares are weighted by how much each activity matters in the job, using O*NET. Microsoft’s own AI applicability score for this job is 0.22, higher than 74% of jobs.
Doing an activity is not doing a job. The researchers behind this data warn against reading it as job loss, and so do we. It is US data; the shape of the work travels.
Sources: Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025) · O*NET OnLine, 27-2021 · BLS Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
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