Structural pressure
17%
Moderate RiskTeacher aide
This model suggests AI is unlikely to significantly disrupt Teacher aide. moderate exposure with limited overlap across core tasks.
Limited buffers available against the structural pressure.
Why This Score
35% of tasks overlap with current AI
42% human advantage from judgment & presence
42% 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 are softer, yet retrenchment remains low and hiring still exceeds resignations.
Vacancy
3.1%
↓ 11.4% YoY
Hiring
2.6%
vs 1.6% resign
Retrenchment
1.5
per 1,000 · low
Re-entry
78.5%
find work in 12mo· -1.6pp
Clerical, Sales & Service Workers · 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
Teacher aide 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 59% of occupations· Polytechnic / ITE Diploma
Raw scores
AIOE 0.452 · θ 0.666 · C-AIOE 0.353
Stability
watch · Optimistic 13% · Pessimistic 21%
Sensitivity band
Exposure 21–50% · Net risk 10.03–25.29%
Scoring basis
Not published. No scoring-basis metadata is available for this occupation.
Wage range (SGD/mo)
25th 2,200 · Median 2,500 · 75th 3,130
Evidence & sources
Crosswalk
direct · SSOC 53120
Evidence quality
71% · Crosswalk 1.00 · Market 0.70 · Fresh 0.75
Threshold high · Published medium · capped for sparse source coverage
Task-weighted shadow evidence is not active for this occupation yet.
Exposure by source
Weights: aioe 47% · ilo 53%
Signal conflicts
Tools & offset factors
What helps
- Nearby moves and published transition support look reasonably strong.
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 fell by 0.2 points from last quarter.
- Hiring read: recruitment is running above resignation (2.6% vs 1.6%).
- Retrenchment was low at 1.5 per 1,000 employees.
- 78.5% of retrenched workers re-entered employment within 12 months.
Worker profile
Gender mix
15% male / 85% femalePublished Singapore worker composition for the detailed occupation family 53 Personal Care Workers.
Employment structure
Employee-heavy91% employees, 9% employers or self-employed workers.
Work arrangement
Part-time meaningful24% part-time and 76% full-time in 2025.
Age profile
Older-skewing17% aged 15 to 29, 32% aged 30 to 49, and 51% aged 50 or older.
Qualification mix
Non-degree heavySecondary 26%; Post-secondary 25%.
Gross wage by sex
Female median 14% lowerPublished June 2024 gross wage medians: male $2,893, female $2,484.
Where this work is concentrated
Top planning areas
Woodlands, Tampines, Yishun22% 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
Mid-range commutesEstimated average commute 33.8 minutes. 28% take 46 minutes or more.