Headline risk
15%
Moderate RiskActuaries
United States AI Work Index tracks this occupation on the shared structural baseline and then layers on local demand resilience, wages, and confidence.
Why This Score
Weighted task overlap from O*NET
Median annual from BLS OEWS
BLS employment projections
O*NET job zone level
Occupation profile
Analyze statistical data, such as mortality, accident, sickness, disability, and retirement rates and construct probability tables to forecast risk and liability for payment of future benefits. May ascertain insurance rates required and cash reserves necessary to ensure payment of future benefits.
Task evidence
100% weighted task match · 5% effective coverage
Method contract
structural_pressure = exposure × (1 - bottleneck)
headline_risk = structural_pressure × (1 - country_demand_resilience)
United States Now
Median Wage
USD 125,770
Employment 2024
33.6K
Projected Change
21.8%
Openings
2.4K
Wage distribution
Demand outlook
Employment of actuaries is projected to grow 22 percent from 2024 to 2034, much faster than the average for all occupations.
Role Profile
Tasks
- 1. Ascertain premium rates required and cash reserves and liabilities necessary to ensure payment of future benefits. AI 0%
- 2. Collaborate with programmers, underwriters, accounts, claims experts, and senior management to help companies develop plans for new lines of business or improvements to existing business. AI 0%
- 3. Analyze statistical information to estimate mortality, accident, sickness, disability, and retirement rates. AI 0%
- 4. Determine, or help determine, company policy, and explain complex technical matters to company executives, government officials, shareholders, policyholders, or the public. AI 0%
- 5. Design, review, and help administer insurance, annuity and pension plans, determining financial soundness and calculating premiums. AI 0%
- 6. Construct probability tables for events such as fires, natural disasters, and unemployment, based on analysis of statistical data and other pertinent information. AI 0%
Technologies
Requirements
Work context
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Source coverage
10/11 source families · O*NET 30.2 / OEWS 2024 / ORS 2025 / OOH 2025-08-28 / Projections 2024-34 / CPS 2025 / Anthropic task penetration
Mapping quality
crosswalk_exact · employment series present
Narrative & sources
Actuaries use mathematics, statistics, and financial theory to analyze the economic costs of risk and uncertainty.
Most actuaries work for insurance companies. Although most work full time in an office setting, some actuaries who work as consultants travel to meet with clients.
Actuaries typically need a bachelor’s degree to enter the occupation and must pass a series of exams to become certified. They must have a strong background in mathematics, statistics, and business.
The median annual wage for actuaries was $125,770 in May 2024.
Employment of actuaries is projected to grow 22 percent from 2024 to 2034, much faster than the average for all occupations.
Published limitations
This page shows the local country layer, not realised individual job outcomes. The global structural baseline is shared across countries; only the local demand and wage layer changes here.
Built from O*NET occupation descriptions, task statements, technology skills, work context, Job Zones, Anthropic task penetration, BLS OEWS wages, BLS projection tables, BLS ORS requirements, BLS OOH narrative content, BLS skills data, and BLS CPS occupation age tables.