Structural pressure
47%
High RiskPrivate tutor (academic)
Private tutor (academic) shows mixed AI signals: high exposure, but also strong human dependencies and organizational friction.
Limited buffers available against the structural pressure.
Why This Score
90% of tasks overlap with current AI
36% human advantage from judgment & presence
52% demand buffer from SG labour market
These factors combine multiplicatively — larger bars do not mean proportionally larger contributions to the final score.
Exposure × (1 − Bottleneck) × Market Modifier. Band stability: watch. How this works
Tasks AI can handle
Generating lesson plans, creating quizzes and practice exercises, summarizing curricula, personalizing reading lists, and grading objective assessments.
Where humans stay essential
Motivating students, adapting to emotional and social dynamics in the classroom, mentoring, handling behavioral issues, and assessing creative or nuanced work.
Skills to focus on
Role profile
Heuristic workflow context from shared occupation archetypes. This profile helps interpret the score; it is not a direct occupation-level measurement and is not part of the core net-risk formula.
Workflow dimensions (0 = low, 1 = high)
Singapore Now
Cooling, but not collapsing. Vacancies and re-entry are softer, yet retrenchment remains low and hiring still exceeds resignations.
Vacancy
3.1%
↓ 3.1% YoY
Hiring
1.5%
vs 0.9% resign
Retrenchment
1.5
per 1,000 · low
Re-entry
67.7%
find work in 12mo· -5.3pp
Professionals, Managers, Executives & Technicians · Q4 2025 full
Top Industries
Industry vacancy overlays use the latest published detailed cross-tab, which can lag the main labour monitor.
How this changes by career stage
What You Can Do
Private tutor (academic) has some offset potential, but it depends on transition pathways holding up in practice and on workers clearing the main switching frictions.
Published transition support
Adjacent pathways to investigate
Similarity-basedSee how this compares to similar occupations
Compare with... →Classification
Higher risk than 88% of occupations· University Degree
Raw scores
AIOE 1.325 · θ 0.657 · C-AIOE 1.048
Stability
watch · Optimistic 41% · Pessimistic 53%
Sensitivity band
Exposure 90–90% · Net risk 42.27–51.98%
Scoring basis
Not published. No scoring-basis metadata is available for this occupation.
Wage range (SGD/mo)
25th 2,600 · Median 4,250 · 75th 5,370
Evidence & sources
Crosswalk
direct · SSOC 36910
Evidence quality
52% · Crosswalk 1.00 · Market 0.70 · Fresh 0.55
100% weighted task match · 0% effective coverage
Exposure by source
Weights: aioe 100%
Signal conflicts
Tools & offset factors
What could slow it down
- Current demand support is thin, so offsets may take longer to show up.
Worker profile & local context
- Vacancy rate is 3.1% and was essentially flat versus last quarter.
- Hiring read: recruitment is running above resignation (1.5% vs 0.9%).
- Retrenchment was low at 1.5 per 1,000 employees.
- 67.7% of retrenched workers re-entered employment within 12 months.
Worker profile
Gender mix
16% male / 84% femalePublished Singapore worker composition for the detailed occupation family 36 Teaching Associate Professionals.
Employment structure
Employee-heavy87% employees, 13% employers or self-employed workers.
Work arrangement
Mostly full-time9% part-time and 91% full-time in 2025.
Age profile
Mid-career heavy17% aged 15 to 29, 52% aged 30 to 49, and 31% aged 50 or older.
Qualification mix
Diploma-heavyDegree 37%; Diploma / professional qualification 35%.
Gross wage by sex
Female median 14% lowerPublished June 2024 gross wage medians: male $4,745, female $4,100.
Where this work is concentrated
Top planning areas
Jurong West, Woodlands, Tampines22% of workers in this occupation group live in these three planning areas.
Residential concentration
Moderately clustered35% live across the top five planning areas in the 2020 Census.
Commute pattern
Longer commutesEstimated average commute 38.7 minutes. 36% take 46 minutes or more.