Astronomers

Low Risk
20%
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AUTOMATION RISK
CALCULATED
12%
(Minimal Risk)
POLLING
28%
(Low Risk)
Average: 20%
LABOR DEMAND
GROWTH
5.6%
by year 2032
WAGES
$127,930
or $61.50 per hour
Volume
2,080
as of 2023
SUMMARY
JOB SCORE
7.2/10

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Calculated automation risk

12% (Minimal Risk)

Minimal Risk (0-20%): Occupations in this category have a low probability of being automated, as they typically demand complex problem-solving, creativity, strong interpersonal skills, and a high degree of manual dexterity. These jobs often involve intricate hand movements and precise coordination, making it difficult for machines to replicate the required tasks.

More information on what this score is, and how it is calculated is available here.

Some quite important qualities of the job are difficult to automate:

  • Originality

  • Social Perceptiveness

  • Persuasion

User poll

28% chance of full automation within the next two decades

Our visitors have voted there's a low chance this occupation will be automated. This assessment is further supported by the calculated automation risk level, which estimates 12% chance of automation.

What do you think the risk of automation is?

What is the likelihood that Astronomers will be replaced by robots or artificial intelligence within the next 20 years?






Sentiment

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Sentiment over time (yearly)

Growth

Moderate growth relative to other professions

The number of 'Astronomers' job openings is expected to rise 5.6% by 2032

Total employment, and estimated job openings

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the period between 2021 and 2031
Updated projections are due 09-2024.

Wages

Very high paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Astronomers' was $127,930, or $61 per hour

'Astronomers' were paid 166.2% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060

Wages over time

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Volume

Significantly lower range of job opportunities compared to other professions

As of 2023 there were 2,080 people employed as 'Astronomers' within the United States.

This represents around < 0.001% of the employed workforce across the country

Put another way, around 1 in 73 thousand people are employed as 'Astronomers'.

Job description

Observe, research, and interpret astronomical phenomena to increase basic knowledge or apply such information to practical problems.

SOC Code: 19-2011.00

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Aphiwe Stuurman (Low) 27 days ago
Astronomy is the study of the universe we live in, to understand it. AI can help but it can never have the emotions humans may feel when discovering something new about our physical universe.
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Shadow (No chance) 3 months ago
The level of problem solving and observing that is required is too much
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Good Cheeez (No chance) 5 months ago
because people have to do the math and learn for missions to be successfull
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nany (No chance) 8 months ago
Astronomy required thinking skills and development of news ideas based on the provided data, which cant be controlled by AI itself. Without a human aid it cant be possible

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ryyyyeeadsffdfgn (No chance) 11 months ago
because it can never think extremely logical and debate.
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Jonny (Moderate) 3 years ago
Eventually, it will replace astronomers. As an Astronomer, I hope it takes our job. Because we only stack here with 5% of the universe other 95% of the universe is untouched or undiscovered; besides, Astronomy is nothing without AI or ML. It is nearly dying like physics.
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Pablo 3 months ago
That's not optimistic
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Mansi (Low) 3 years ago
Astronomy is the way of living, in my perspective robots or AI could be very useful for exploring the cosmos but the everlasting curiosity will remained in the human.
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tammy 3 years ago
Robots will do the analysis, but humans will still be needed to draw wildly speculative conclusions.
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Jessica Tsao (Low) 3 years ago
This job involves numbers and observing the cosmos, and the latter is neither outsourceable nor capable of being done by robots, since the study of the universe still requires an actual human individual to do the job.
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Faisal Ali 3 years ago
This is impossible to happen cause todays AI technology is still developing but when a human being
looks at the sky through a telescope their curious enough to know the ''wonders'' of the universe!

But because were just doing that were developing excellent technologies to other planets to discover
the ''wonders'' of the universe. Robots like AI rover or ''curiosity'' are developed currently and sent to planets
in our universe in order to find the unanswered questions of the universe. Things scientists still don't know the
answer too. On the other hand astronomers won't get replaced by robot's, and that's because we humans need
to discover the universe and learn things that mankind always wanted to know when there wasn't a possibility of
enough technology to help us know and even human curiosity is so hard to kill.

In this field of knowledge I think we only need the technology to help us determine something we don't know and even great advances to just make this field ''astronomy'' better than it was in the past. But as humans we're very curious for learning and discovering ''we're curious beings'' which means you can't just let us down.
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Killbayne 4 years ago
We need robots to automatically stack pictures
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Purple (Low) 4 years ago
I think we will be safe
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BOBBY JOE 4 years ago
You can even search up the definition of "astronomers" and find out why it's literally impossible for it to happen.
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Murat Ergin (Highly likely) 5 years ago
Sense of humor is important.
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