Headline risk
15%
Moderate RiskMedical transcriptionists
AI displacement pressure score for United States AI Work Index, combining global AI task overlap with local wages, employment trends, and demand signals.
Why This Score
Share of job tasks that overlap with current AI capabilities
Median annual wage
Projected employment change over 10 years
Typical preparation needed for this occupation
Occupation profile
Transcribe medical reports recorded by physicians and other healthcare practitioners using various electronic devices, covering office visits, emergency room visits, diagnostic imaging studies, operations, chart reviews, and final summaries. Transcribe dictated reports and translate abbreviations into fully understandable form. Edit as necessary and return reports in either printed or electronic form for review and signature, or correction.
Task evidence
100% weighted task match · 39% effective coverage
Scores combine AI task overlap, human advantages, and local demand. How it works
United States Now
Median Wage
USD 37,550
Employment 2024
43.9K
Projected Change (2024–34)
-4.9%
Openings (2024–34)
7.4K
Wage distribution
Demand outlook
Employment of medical transcriptionists is projected to grow 5 percent from 2024 to 2034, decline.
Role Profile
Tasks
- 1. Return dictated reports in printed or electronic form for physician's review, signature, and corrections and for inclusion in patients' medical records. AI use: 0%
- 2. Translate medical jargon and abbreviations into their expanded forms to ensure the accuracy of patient and health care facility records. AI use: 0%
- 3. Identify mistakes in reports and check with doctors to obtain the correct information. AI use: 0%
- 4. Transcribe dictation for a variety of medical reports, such as patient histories, physical examinations, emergency room visits, operations, chart reviews, consultation, or discharge summaries. AI use: 100%
- 5. Produce medical reports, correspondence, records, patient-care information, statistics, medical research, and administrative material. AI use: 86%
- 6. Perform data entry and data retrieval services, providing data for inclusion in medical records and for transmission to physicians. AI use: 99%
Technologies
Requirements
Work context
Worker profile
Median age 35.0 · 680K employed
Under 25: 21% · 25–54: 67% · 55+: 12%
Related
No direct US role match is available yet for this occupation.
Source coverage
11/11 source families · O*NET 30.2 / OEWS 2024 / ORS 2025 / OOH 2025-08-28 / Projections 2024-34 / CPS 2025 / Anthropic task penetration
Data quality
Employment data available
Narrative & sources
Medical transcriptionists use electronic devices to convert voice recordings from physicians and other healthcare workers into formal reports.
Many medical transcriptionists work for hospitals, physicians' offices, and third-party transcription companies that provide services to healthcare establishments. Most are full time, but part-time work is common.
Medical transcriptionists typically need postsecondary education that leads to a certificate. Prospective medical transcriptionists must know basic medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, and rules of grammar.
The median annual wage for medical transcriptionists was $37,550 in May 2024.
Employment of medical transcriptionists is projected to grow 5 percent from 2024 to 2034, decline.
Important context
This score measures structural AI displacement pressure, not actual job losses. Local wages and demand data are specific to United States AI Work Index; the underlying AI task overlap analysis is consistent across all countries.