Loan Officers

79% (High Risk)

High Risk (61-80%): Jobs in this category face a significant threat from automation, as many of their tasks can be easily automated using current or near-future technologies.

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Wages

High paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Loan Officers' was $69,990, or $33 per hour

'Loan Officers' were paid 45.6% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060

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Grant Zabielski 11 months ago

Extremely likely. AI could do every task I do within a loan right now. Not in the future, right now. Every scenario can currently be programmed in with a flow chart. Once AI evolves to generative AI, it’s over. Scenarios won’t even have to be programmed in. AI will be a better loan officer than I have ever been and could ever be, and their customer service will be impeccable.

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Parul (Highly likely) 1 year ago

I think in this AI World. Mobiles and application loan are more easy to access or operate so thats why our executive filed is likely to be tougher

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JY (Low) 2 years ago

Due dilligence is needed, especially prevention of money laundering and terrorism.

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jh 1 year ago

that's what the fraud dept is for

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Ed (Low) 2 years ago

Not every loan is clear-cut. A computer can't figure it out.

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Brian L 2 years ago

There will be fewer and fewer loan officers until there won't be any. This process will take years, but there is no doubt that it is a declining role. The next generation of homebuyers doesn't care about working with a person; they prefer apps. Systems will streamline the process of application and verifications of income, deposit, and residence so that very little to nothing needs to be done by humans.

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Chris 3 years ago

Everyone talking about the social aspect of things in the comments as they all have a bias perception. Social interaction may be good for business (which I understand), but from the customer viewpoint, they just want the product and service going through the path of least resistance. No customer wants to socially interact. Robots will give the customer what they want, quicker and with less hassle. Be prepared to adapt.

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MSTE (Highly likely) 3 years ago

I design and develop loan origination and underwriting systems :)

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G (No chance) 3 years ago

There are way too many moving part the life of a loan. People prefer an advisor in such a complex process. Plus, the mortgage industry is a regulatory minefield. The mortgage technology companies that have cropped up in the past 20 years have face lawsuits and have gone out of business. However, technology skills will play an ever greater role in a loan officer's career.

To put this career as highly at risk is unrealistic.

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Brian (Highly likely) 4 years ago

All you people who believe that mortgages are too complicated to have a robot doing it are in denial. Any logic that you can dream up can be programmed into a computer. As interest rates continue to decrease everyone in the process is having their margins squeezed. That means companies will look for cheaper ways to do things i.e. robots. Robots can handle way more volume than a human as well.

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Paul George (Uncertain) 4 years ago

Face to face interaction will always be wanted unless we are looking 100 years into the future where every ones perception of social interaction has been skewed due to social media.

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Max (No chance) 4 years ago

Not possible. No way for a robot to perform every aspect of the job. Evaluating the viability of a business plan and the likelihood of the applicants to deliver takes a human like myself.

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Al C. (Uncertain) 5 years ago

There is no way for a Mortgage Loan Officer to go away anytime soon. A Mortgage is to complicated to not have an actual person walk some one through the process from start to finish. Automation is great to bring in customers but not to complete the transaction together.

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Joe (No chance) 5 years ago

There is a large social aspect associated with the job. In addition, there are a lot of legal and other various parts of the job that are hard to automate.

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Matt (No chance) 5 years ago

There is no entry for a mortgage loan officer.

Consumer loan officers like credit card or unsecured debt peddlers might be automated. In a lot of regards they already are.

But if you're going to say that mortgage lending is going away just look at quicken mortgage. Their model is the future.

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