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Shampooers
Mostly untouched
AI barely touches this work so far. The BLS expects 5.6% more of these jobs by 2035, faster than the 3.5% average.
- Rank
- #353 of 785 jobs, by how much of the work AI does
- US jobs, 2025 to 2035
- +5.6% All jobs: +3.5%
- Median US pay
- $32,600 a year, 2025
- People doing it
- 15,400 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
Still yours: Apply hygienic or cosmetic agents to skin or hair39%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Administer therapeutic treatments27%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI does this: Advise patients or clients on medical issues20%
AI performed this in about 1 in 746 Copilot conversations and completed it 96% of the time.
Still yours: Maintain operational records15%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
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.
- Shares 57% of the workSkincare Specialists6% AI does, against 20% here+8.8% by 2035 · $45,330 · Postsecondary certificate
- Shares 55% of the workManicurists and Pedicurists7% AI does, against 20% here+9.2% by 2035 · $35,760 · Postsecondary certificate
- Shares 28% of the workHairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists8% AI does, against 20% here+7.7% by 2035 · $35,790 · Postsecondary certificate
The wire
On the wire.
Nothing filed about this job yet. The latest from the Love front:
How to read this file.
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 0.09, higher than 31% 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, 39-5093 · BLS Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
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